Be joyful though you have considered all the facts
Woah, I just did the most stressful honey robbing yet. A warm (80F) and sunny day, the bees were busy. Hive 3, my Super Hive I brought the super with the frames we harvested last week (green in the image). You return harvested frames to the hive so the bees can clean out the honey …
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This is the Riot for the month of September 2012 for the three of us plus my parents for two weeks, so 4 people. My summary of our first three years is here. Edson fixed the calculator: all go tither to crunch those numbers! Gasoline.  Calculated per person. DH’s shuttle started running so he hasn’t been driving …
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Here’s the West Garden, put to bed with the indispensable help of my mom and dad, who were visiting from Belgium the last two weeks.  Thank you, Oma and Opa, also for helping me extract another 25 lbs. of honey, totaling the honey harvest from Hive 3 to almost 50 lbs! I keep saying this is …
A pine in our backyard started dying two years ago. You could see the needles falling, the woodpeckers going after one particular spot, pitting the bark there. The bark stated falling off. Then dry, dead branches started crashing down. It was time to take it down, because Amie’s swing stands only ten feet away from …
I lost it somewhere in the middle of August. There was too much to do for Solarize Massachusetts, for Transition Wayland. So I lost the garden. The plants kept on growing, but so did the weeds and the pests. I stopped watering the tomatoes and peppers in the hoop house altogether. We never managed to put …
What does it mean when someone tells you “It can be done”? Does it mean anything more or different from “it can’t be done”? (*) When you hear someone say “it can be done,” you should immediately ask “and are we doing it?” That will accomplish two things. If the answer is yes, you’ve confirmed …
Yesterday was an animal day. First, I checked on Hive 3 and finally undid the mistake I made over a month ago. Back then  I pulled a deep frame out of that hive’s brood box to give to a friend, bees, brood, eggs, honey and pollen and all, whose hive was in trouble. I pulled …
Three yolks, two of them homegrown. Smaller, yes, but so much tastier than the big one! Getting two a day now!
This morning Amie and I were so thrilled when we opened the nest box. There, on the bare plank (I hadn’t put any bedding down yet), was the cutest egg you’ve ever soon, a tiny pullet egg. We couldn’t tell which of the four ladies laid this egg, but Pecky was the one who protested …
TO DO before Winter in the so-called “Ladies’ Garden”. Â clear weeds, brambles put in path from house to woodpile (to the right , not in picture) and stake make bed for strawberries transplant strawberries from front bed to here reinforce coop roof for snow load finishing touches to coop buck, split and stack more wood …