The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea…
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Hilled up potatoes! A corner of our back yard Fantastic sunset shot from the back yard Chickens like beets 🙂 The Butternut Squash is starting to run! Snap Peas and beans starting the long climb! Beans make for a pretty cover crop Spinach (second planting) under a tree in the…
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Recently, Tool Lady and I saw some unusual behavior happening right outside our bee hive…The bees seemed to be moving very quickly and strangely right outside of the hive. At first we thought it was a robbery in progress. Â You know, the whole fight to the death panic ensuing madness…
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We checked on our bees again this weekend and have found 8 separate combs being built…one almost entirely completed! Â The work these little guys are putting into their new home never ceases to amaze me! Â They look happy and healthy and seem to be doing wonderfully despite the crazy temperatures…
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Round two of the snap peas is much smaller than Round One, but we already have a few flowers and one actual pea 🙂 The Blue Corn is coming along nicely!  This is my first year trying this variety…my fingers are officially crossed! All of the tomatoes I started from…
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It’s been about a month since we received our shipment of bees and they seem to be doing wonderfully!!! There are several combs being formed… Lots of pollen being collected… Lots of nectar being processed… It’s looking like we are now officially hosting a bunch of busy, busy, bees… Every…
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Last night, as I was sleeping, I dreamt – marvelous error! –Â that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my past mistakes. ~Antonio Machado Well, it’s been a week since we received our bees and we…
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We have battled getting the video of our bee experience uploaded onto this blog for most of the afternoon. We finally broke down and decided to create a youtube account in order to better facilitate the uploading of videos! Â So…here’s our very first video! Â Warning…it involves lots of buzzing bees!!!…