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Flying on airplanes, apparently like staying at a Holiday Inn Express, makes you smart…… On a recent Southwest flight, I was perusing their April inflight magazine, Spirit, and stumbled across a catchy statistic. Did you know that 41% of couples squabble over how to load the dishwasher? Why no, I didn’t know that. But I […]
Read MoreMy maiden voyage into vermiculture – the addition of 2,000 new “pets” to the Beacon Hill farm. Who: Red Wiggler, Eisenia Fotida – not just any worm’ll do What: Can consume organic material equivalent to their body weight each day to produce castings equal to 75% of their body weight each day. I plan to […]
Read MoreThe Awkward Period, but hey, we have all been there….. some of us more than others, some may never leave (but that begs other issues.) Watching my little hens grow up, rapidly, made me reflect on my own growing up, in particular the awkward times of days gone by and yet to come. I must […]
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“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 […]
Read MoreA compilation post of some kitchen hacks for things that I all too often Google search of “substitute for [fill in the blank]”. You know you’ve done it and if you haven’t, you must not be cooking or live in a grocery store. Data sources: A great reference I keep tucked away in one of […]
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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 […]
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Odds & Hens : Ramblings. Creations. 