I love my bees. They are very polite as long as I am too.
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Make a bee-line for it
On April - 6 - 2009
Bee-lining has been much discussed on a couple of my bee groups lately. I think it is amazing.
Back before the days of mail order bees (which I’d argue against buying by the way) people had to know a beekeeper to get into the hobby. Or they could go bee-lining, and try to get a feral hive.
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Catching a buzz on my birthday
On April - 3 - 2009
Ok, maybe this wasn’t the most traditional way to catch a buzz on your birthday. And, maybe I got a little tipsy later that night. I guess that would be two buzzes by a truthful count.
The first buzz was from a honeybee hive.
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Hot young chicks
On April - 1 - 2009
We got our chickens today! Seven Silver Laced Wyandottes and nine Buff Orpingtons. Woot!
Really, they are quite disgustingly cute. Pics after the click.
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Building top bar bee hives
On March - 26 - 2009
I was finally able to get together with a homesteading buddy to work on our top bar hives last night. It was a hoot.
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Around and about
On March - 14 - 2009
Sugarin’
On March - 10 - 2009
One weekend down, more to go. We’ve been sugaring.
I was able to work from home last Friday (woohoo) because the Internet was wonky at the office, so I snuck off to start boiling (in all honesty, I did work while I was there – yeah for wireless). We ended up getting just over a gallon of syrup. Yummy stuff.
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Setting up the sugarbush
On March - 1 - 2009
It’s early March in Michigan. The temperature is starting to get above freezing during the day before dropping back down to the low 30’s at night. The snow is starting to burn away in the spots that are getting sunlight.
It’s the season for making maple syrup!
This past weekend we went out to my folk’s house to set up the sugarbush. For the uninitiated, a sugarbush is the group of sugar maple trees that you tap for making syrup.
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Grape Jelly
On February - 21 - 2009
Here’s a set of photos from a grape jelly session in 2007. Cara, Jason, Amy and I put up quite a few pints. We got the Concord grapes from the vineyard near my parent’s house.
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The Kids
On February - 21 - 2009
Another random assortment of older pics. Gwen, Rohan and Maggie over the past several years. Most were taken in Michigan. The featured pic (the one on the homepage) is Rohan in 08 at the Kalamazoo Nature Center.
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