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Sunday, March 11, 2007

Critter in Tree eating an apple



A few days ago I was cleaning up in the kitchen and realized that Jim hadn't eaten his green apples, instead of throwing them away I donated them to nature to see if any of the deer might be interested. Sure enough a critter was interested but it wasn't a deer. Jim and I were sitting at the kitchen table when I heard him say, "What the heck does that squirrel have in his mouth climbing up the tree? Is it a tennis ball?" As soon as I saw it I knew. . . I could not believe that he was able to climb all the way up the tree with that apple in his mouth. He stopped once or twice before he found a perch to settle in and start eating. I thought you would enjoy the photos, after all how often do you get to see a picture of a squirrel hanging out eating a green apple in a tree?



Thursday, March 08, 2007

Please notice the updated links on the site

Aunt Mar was kind enough to send me some links that might answer some questions that people keep asking me about the Colony Collapse situation. I don't know enough about any of it at this point, but one thing we can all do is make sure that we follow this real close. Oh and I also added the link for the Heartland Meeting. Jim and I plan on attending. This will be the third meeting for me there and I can't say enough great things about just how well this meeting is handled. So if you get a chance by all means register and maybe we will see you there!

Monday, March 05, 2007

The Irony of it all


Can you believe it, just last night I was complaining about the weather and when I woke up this morning the hibiscus that I bring in during the winter decided to start blooming. I think that they felt sorry for me and knew I was feeling a bit down.

It's too cold to leave the hibiscus outside during the winter and I never thought about bringing them inside until my Aunt Mar mentioned that they put her hibiscus in the garage during the winter, and her hibiscus are beautiful.

So this year my plants will have a head start on spring. And in the meantime they will make me smile.

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Busy as a Bee

The weather still is pretty wicked here. Seems just about when the sun starts to shine the rain comes out of nowhere. Just this week we have had torrential downpours and thundering skies, sleet and snow. So would you want to be anywhere else?????

We have been trying to check in on the bees but with the weather being the way it is, and of course after talking to my Uncle, we decided to leave things bee until the weather broke. We are going to use his spring management program this year. I'll keep you posted as to what we are doing and how things are going.

This years bees have been ordered, and we are only adding 10 additional hives. Hopefully we will be able to split what we have from last year when spring comes. We shall see.

A whole lot of talk about the bee collapse disease or whatever the heck they are calling that. I'm still not educated enough about it to speak to comfortably about it. I suppose the best thing that anyone can do is just stay tuned and read what you can about what's going on.

Working on the cookbook, boy it seems like I'm giving birth all over again, and folks at 50 it's not that great a feeling. . . Right about now I'm wishing I would have found a surrogate.
I'll keep you posted.

Son David will be home from Korea in less than five weeks and Jim and I along with the rest of his family are really looking forward to that time. He will be home just in time to help with the spring bees and pick morel mushrooms. Life is good.