Happy Harvest Blog
The bees are thriving
H.W. has been watching them every day, and reporting that the bees HATE the "door" (the entrance limiting stick). We've been having warm days, and the inbound flights start bottlenecking at the entrance mid-morning. Then he pulls out the stick and "the bees BOIL out!". It takes a few minutes to rebalance, like traffic after an accident is cleared. Then the bees come shooting in and out like a time lapse video of La Guardia at 16x
Pollen baskets!
Today I had my face quite close watching a sodden bee (who could at first only wave one antenna to let me know she lived), pull herself back inside when a small black flying insect landed on the bee porch for a rest- just a little gnat.
First Silkie egg of the year
For perspective, this is a "new hen egg" (they're still working up to size, and an "old hen egg". They lay whoppers.
Red letter hen day
This was the very best day of 2015 so far, according to the chickens. A day above all days.
Is your sap running? You'd better go catch it.
We tapped six trees, just using little 1-2 gal food grade buckets. We don't intend to boil down the sap to syrup, because we don't have an outdoor cooking facility, so we'll have to use it fresh. We'll just drink it, cook with it, drink it....There's nothing more divine than cold fresh maple sap.
An impressive murder!
There were over 200! They stayed for about a half hour, and then as one they rose into the air and flew together - into the next yard!
It's officially Spring now.
I've never noticed maple keys sprouting before, but now, every single one seems to be sticking out one exploratory pale green claw, ready to take hold.
Instagram.
I may not make a blog post every day, but at least I Insta.
Bite size.
