Tag: honey
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Making Wicks for Candles and Winter Honey
Yesterday was a rainy and blustery Sunday. Just the kind of Sunday we need when there is lots of work to do inside. I am two thirds of the way through decanting all the honey from the empty hives. Now I really have an awful of wax. I thought that on Thursday the home schooled…
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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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The Land of Milk and Honey
Good morning everyone. We spent almost all morning in the garden yesterday, weeding and gathering for our vegan feast. The young people were entranced by the Duke of Kupa, who spent a lot of time sashaying about looking gorgeous. His tail sways as he walks. Showing off his feathers and his wives. Look at our…
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Hairy MacLairy Babysits while Miss C Harvests Honey!
Hairy MacLairy, the long suffering ram, was left to watch the Shush Sisters yesterday. He is benevolent Uncle personified.. or ramified as the case may be. So he took them over to visit with Queenie Wineti under the tree where they could play in the muck. While I stole a couple of jars of…
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How to have Soft Working Hands
My hands are so rough and dry at the moment that I put runs in my own sheer silk stockings. That is a joke! When was the last time you saw me in black stockings and heels! But my working hands are pretty rough. One way to have soft hands is to work with raw…
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