Showing posts with label bees. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bees. Show all posts
Friday, April 22, 2016

Bees and Heat

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The last few days have been uncharacteristically hot, to say the least. Records were broken. In fact, records were obliterated - the ...
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Monday, April 21, 2014

What's Wrong With These Pictures?

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The pear tree is in full bloom. The sun is out and the temperature is near sixty degrees. This tree ought to be crawling with bees, but...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Bad Bee News; Baby Broilers

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About a month ago, we had a windstorm. That's not news; we have windstorms every couple of weeks from October on every winter. We live o...
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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Hopeful About Honey (When to Invest?)

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The other day, Rowan and I put the honey-supers on the hives. Honey supers are just like regular beehive boxes, but shorter, so that when th...
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Tuesday, June 8, 2010

NOT Better the Second Day

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Okay, so apparently I have a delayed reaction to bee-stings. It doesn't hurt but my wrist is swollen up like an inner tube and ITCHES co...
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Monday, June 7, 2010

Bee Man to the Rescue!

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a marked queen bee Today my bee mentor came over to help me figure out what was going on with my hives. I inspected them a few days ago and ...
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Friday, June 4, 2010

Good News, Bad News

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Whaddaya want first? Whenever I am asked that question, I always ask for the bad news first. But I can't make that option make narrative...
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Monday, May 17, 2010

State of the Season, 49th parallel, 2010

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This was such a strange year, what with the warm winter and the bizarrely early spring, that I decided to begin keeping track of the timing ...
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Saturday, May 15, 2010

The Bee-Man Speaks

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My beekeeping mentor called me after my frantic e-mail asking what I should do about the missing queen and the developing queen cells in my ...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Opening the Hives Again (Long Live the Queen).

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We've had a short stretch of beautiful weather these last few days. Today it is actually rather uncomfortably hot - well, uncomfortably ...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Opening the Hives

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Sooner or later, I knew I would have to open the hives again. The last time I opened them, a few days ago, it was to remove the bee-boxes an...
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Friday, April 23, 2010

A Bee Bit my Butt

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Bees don't bite, of course, they sting. I just couldn't resist the alliteration. My beekeeping mentor gave me some advice today abou...
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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Buzz Buzz Buzz

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The bees arrived! Hooray! Now I can add "Beekeeper" to my impressive list of titles (Goatherd and Cheesewright). Assuming that the...
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Friday, March 5, 2010

Beehive Ho!

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Homero and I worked together all morning to put together two beehives. First we went over all the frames and boxes (again) and finished clea...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Mama Barn Mice, and an Ode to my Husband

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My husband is a brave man. He possesses an enviable equanimity. He is not one to dwell on frightening possibilities - in fact, he's rath...
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Sunday, February 21, 2010

Things I Don't Understand

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1) Why the chickens are not laying eggs. A few weeks ago, we decided to put the chickens into a coop because we weren't getting very man...
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Thursday, February 18, 2010

The First Day of Spring

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Forsythia in full bloom in Bellingham I'm going to go ahead and call it: Today was the fir...
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Saturday, February 6, 2010

I am NOT afraid of bees

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My new mantra. I am NOT afraid of bees, I am NOT afraid of bees, I am NOT afraid of bees.... Actually, I really am not terribly afraid of be...
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Thursday, December 10, 2009

Hello, Goodbye

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Goodbye, Sandy and Tutu (and Clove, not pictured). I sold all three goat kids to a Mexican guy who is throwing a birthday party and wants to...
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