Roxanne, you don’t have to put on the red light Those days are over You don’t have to sell your body to the night Roxanne, you don’t have to wear that dress tonight Walk the streets for money You don’t care if it’s wrong or if it’s right Roxanne… Rest in Peace Roxanne – aka […]
Over the time we will spend together, I will share with you words and illustrations from the M. Morely book The Bee People. Published 1899; self-illustrated designed for third to fifth grade readers with goal to learn “how to observe”. If you would like to skip ahead and read it all, it is available here but […]
Maybe a week or two late but I have completed my first post-package installation hive check. Before I get suited up and open the hives I run through out loud what my plan is while I am working in the hive. This helps me make sure that I have the equipment I might need, plan […]
“They could eat all they wanted, for maple sugar never hurt anybody.” Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little House in the Big Woods I don’t think Buddy the Elf could agree more either, but there is controversy out there about feeding your bees to help them get up and going in the spring time and set up […]
Hives are alive again – 3 sets of new Italian girls. Sadly none of mine made it through the winter. I have plenty of hypotheses, nothing confirmed. In case you are wondering, bees come in packages by the pound, including one queen, marked (a dot with white out) or unmarked. Three pounds of bees, like […]
Both of the following books were random audiobook selections. While the girls share the name Bee, they have very different story lines, albeit told from the Bee’s perspective. Beholding Bee – Kimberly Newton Fusco Excellent story about an orphan girl named Bee, seemingly trapped in a life not chosen and her own insecurities both physical […]