Category Archives: Honey Bees

A Year In Pictures

Posted on January 1, 2015 by Tom

So, photos starting with last winter, up until a few weeks ago.  We lived through Christmas, I slept through the New Year, and here we are in 2015.  Hope you enjoy this look back, and stay with us through the … Continue reading →

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Home Again

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Tom

Everything grew.  Patti and I are still pretty sore from the drive home, but I did finish harvesting my garlic here at home, and made a trip out to the Ness farm to see how things are out there. Now, … Continue reading →

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Ness Farm & Anonymous

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Tom

(Chickens shown above are the Ness’.  Ours are still at David’s property and doing fine there). Today the garden I have at the Ness farm was planted.  After all of the older girls were off to school we headed over … Continue reading →

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Pumpkin Conversion

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Tom

I had a grocery bag full of corncobs with some kernels still attached, another of bean husks, and a half dozen pumpkins, some carved, some not, that had been sitting frozen on ours and our neighbor’s doorsteps until things thawed … Continue reading →

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Honey Never Spoils

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Tom

  We had some honeycomb in plastic bins left over from last year.  For a while the kids had just been eating it with spoons, but the bins had been put away and forgotten for a bit, and then the … Continue reading →

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No Camera, But Still Doing Things

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Tom

We are bereft of the ability to illustrate the things we are doing.  Temporary, but still annoying.  The Coolpix Nikon camera that I was not particularly thrilled with crapped out after only 7 months of taking photos.  So, cost of … Continue reading →

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So, Honey Instead

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Tom

Not that I am complaining.  Right before Patti and I were going to start processing apples Roger called and wanted to come out, and take me out to the hives to pull a super of honey off.  Not going to … Continue reading →

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Roger & The Bees

Posted on September 9, 2012 by Tom

Remember when you were kids (in the upper mid-west) and mom and dad bought Mel-o honey in the little squeezable plastic bears as a special treat to have on pancakes, cornbread, etc? The company was owned by a friend of … Continue reading →

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Weeds, Harvesting, Photos & Yet More Trauma

Posted on August 5, 2012 by Tom

Well, I guess this is a good place to start.  Saturday was a week out from the car wreck.  Insurance company had delivered a Nissan Pathfinder to the house on Thursday morning, Friday there was a house fire three houses … Continue reading →

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Doing Much Better

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Tom

Right now we are getting ready to head out and pick up apples one last time before it turns too cold.  I called over to Homestead Orchard and Jerry there said that though it is quiet there, the orchard is … Continue reading →

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