The first post-tax season week-end at home

Apr 24, 2010 11:01

B.'s tending the bees
The boys are washing the porch
Sunny Saturday!

decrepit victorian, haiku, bees

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froggoddess April 24 2010, 21:00:30 UTC
Speaking of bees -- are you (Small Boy?) selling honey again this year? Because I want to buy lots if you are. That was some amazing honey!!

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gwendally April 24 2010, 21:41:30 UTC
Things are looking MUCH better in terms of honey production. Last year we started May with a new packet of bees, the old hive having died in April. This year we've already got capped brood and drawn comb, so we're already a month ahead. Last year it rained ALL of June and we got essentially no honey: we didn't even borrow an extractor, just dripped some into a bucket for our own use.

If it doesn't rain we should get some this year, I think, enough to sell.

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tleex April 25 2010, 16:28:43 UTC
Out of curiosity, how do you obtain your bees? Do they come by mail order?

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gwendally April 25 2010, 16:39:13 UTC
There's an apiary a few towns over from me that takes orders in the winter and then drives down to Georgia or Florida (I forget which) to get packets in April. I ordered packets from them the last two winters. The first year I was taking a beekeeping course with Small Boy (that somehow ended up being almost entirely B's chore) and the second winter we were attempting to expand to two hives, but then the first unexpectedly died in April and we were left with just the new packet ( ... )

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