Tag: bees
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Bad news about the Bees and a Chance to Vote.
We have snow on the ground. Not much. Almost everyone likes to play in the snow, even if you do not have hands for snow balls. Mama continues to get larger and I can literally see her lambs doing flip flops inside her. Some of us have no interest in playing in the snow though.…
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Shuffling the cards of cows.
On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow. Just a little. Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well. When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…
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Can you sleep in?
Yesterday I took the last of my allotted honey from the bees. This year each small super has yielded just over 2 gallons of lovely clear honey. I had three honey supers on two hives. So all up we have harvested a little under 7 gallons (or 26 litres if my calculations are correct)…
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A crazy maze for bees
YES! John came home from work yesterday with a new washing machine on the back of his truck. It is small, efficient and most importantly – it works. I hate to buy new but in this instance new is cost effective. The old dead useless mammoth of a washing machine has been shuffled to the side…
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I never thought it would happen to me
Buoyant with the notion that it was going to get cooler yesterday, I spent the late morning tackling some of the jobs I had been ‘leaving ’til after’. I heaved over water troughs and scrubbed the green out of them, refilling them with clear cold water and a little cider vinegar. I got the tractor…
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