I think I saw an honest to goodness sign of spring this weekend around Mr. Neil’s. I did a little driving to look for golden eagles again and I was stunned by the number of horned larks I flushed as I drove along the country roads. This is a terrible photo of a horned lark–heat [ Read More ]
Ah, where did the summer go? I ask that on October 10 when we have had our first snow of the season–that’s a little insane, even for the Twin Cities. I’m prepared for snow by Halloween, this is too early. We have barely taken the full measures to get our hives ready for winter and [ Read More ]
We did some work out at the hives today. Kitty came along and got a photo of me petting one of our bees. This bee was from our oh so mellow Lebowski Hive. Not all were so mellow. I got stung on the ankle (and it’s true, the stings hurt less over time). Poor Hans [ Read More ]
Look at all the little white bee necks! Cute! I love it when you see bees craning their heads. Lorraine and I checked the hives on Wednesday and most is going very well. The yellow Hannah hive and the green Wendy hive are still working their honey supers. We removed the bell jar from the [ Read More ]
Lorraine and I headed out to the county fair to get photos of our award winning honey. On the right is our very light extracted honey and our comb honey. Some people came by and took a look our stuff, we puffed up bigger than prairie chickens on a lek–just overwhelmed with pride in our [ Read More ]
I am just so giddy! Our bees won the county fair for the second year in a row! And this time, we took both the honey ribbons–one for extracted honey and the other for cut comb honey. It’s official, our cured bee vomit is the best bee vomit! It’s the oddest sensation, the bees essentially [ Read More ]
I saw this red-tailed perched on the exit ramp on my way out to the bees on Sunday. The fuzz is very serious in their enforcement of no parking on the exit ramp! I tell you, the type of summer we are having with our hives, is the type of summer I would wish for [ Read More ]
I guess the beekeeping segment aired on MPR. Alas, Lorraine and I didn’t make it on to the audio, but we did make it into the cool video Tom Weber shot and is on their website (you might also recognize a certain pooch in that video too):
We had the coolest birds fly over the hive today. As we were suiting up in the bee yard and stoking our smoker, I heard a familiar gurgling trumpet call–distant sandhill cranes. Lorriane and Hans were with me and I asked if they heard it too, they did and this time, they sounded a bit [ Read More ]
Yesterday was an interesting day. A couple of people from Minnesota Public Radio accompanied Lorraine and I out to the hives. We’ve had Euan Kerr out before, but he was interviewing Mr. Neil. For some reason, it really didn’t register to me what we would be doing when they asked to come out. I love [ Read More ]
