An OS update, which I thought I had installed weeks ago, put an end to my horrid keyboard lag problem, and I can now type freely. Color me happy.

I have other happy news:  My "baby" bee colony (started for and given to me by a kind and generous beekeeping neighbor) is growing splendidly, contrary to the fear that took hold of me when J told me he ( Read more... )

Forgive the hodgepodge nature of this entry, but there has been so much going on this week

- It seems wrong to include this first category in an entry with more trivial stuff, but it has shaped my week and affected me more than the rest, so:

This week, we have been notified of three deaths : the doula who helped bring Farmer Boy and Ti'Loup into ( Read more... )

*That would be "bread" in French, nothing to do with suffering.

Thanks to a fried who lives an hour away, we found out about a local-to-us festival happening this weekend. I really should pay more attention to goings-on, shouldn't I?

Anyhow, yesterday I helped BB and his family harvest the last of their honey** for this season, so that left only ( Read more... )

Yesterday, the neighbor who told me about the local beekeeping training called to ask if I wanted to come over and watch him harvest his honey. Naturally I gathered my bee suit and went to see what I had not been able to witness during classes because of the weird and inclement weather this year has thus far shown us ( Read more... )

I have no bee icons, so have a black, white and yellow banaquit instead.

For the past couple of months, I have been taking a beekeeping class.  Today we had our next-to-last class at a village about a 45 minute drive from here. The morning was taken up by a walk with a botanist, who taught us not only about plants that are nectar and pollen ( Read more... )