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My Book Has Arrived.
Fantasy has become reality. Last fall a book publisher I had (honestly) never heard of called Adams Media contacted me about writing for a project they were working on called, “Honey Crafting.” That’s right up my alley. I looked up … Continue reading
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Tagged author, beehives, beekeeper, beekeeping, beeks, bees, book, honey, honey bees, honey crafting, honeybees, jane austin, publisher, writing
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Promises, Promises.
After two days of wind and snow, the weather prognosticators are promising us a week of 50-degree temperatures. Part of me doesn’t want to believe them. Another part of me desperately clings to every word they say. A week — … Continue reading
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Tagged beekeeping, bees, march, outdoors, school, Spring
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The Hopeful Homesteader.
Here it is – another cold and windy February day has come and gone. More accurately: cold, windy, raw, rainy, dark, gloomy. The kind of cold and wind that hurts your skin. Raw, burning hands. Cold globs of rain pelting … Continue reading
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Tagged beehives, beekeeping, bees, cabin fever, farm, garden, grow lights, homestead, loam, mason jars, seed starting, seeds, Spring
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Quotable Sunday. Don’t Say You Don’t Have Enough Time.
“Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” –Life’s Little Instruction Book
Quotable Sunday.
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, – One clover, and a bee, And revery. If bees are few, Then revery alone will do. -Emily Dickinson
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Tagged beekeeping, bees, emily dickinson, honey bees, poem, prairie
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Feeding Time.
September is a month of great change in Sussex County, and also in the beehives. The autumnal equinox served as a signal to the queen to change her egg laying habits in preparation for a generation of healthy winter bees. … Continue reading
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Tagged autumn, Autumnal equinox, beehives, beekeeper, beekeeping, bees, fields, flower, honey, honey bees, nature, September, sugar, syrup
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A Day at the Fair: 7
This girl is smelling all the Lee’s Bees lip balms in one bundle. She claims, “it smells like a candy store.” Incidentally, her grandma made the beautiful brown quilt you see hanging in the background. Blue ribbon.
They Drive By Night.
They Drive by Night was a lesser-known Humphry Bogart film about two guys who own a trucking business, and drive all night trying to make their deliveries, get paid, and keep their trucking business. We don’t drive trucks by night – … Continue reading
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Tagged beehives, beekeeping, bees, honey bees, humphrey bogart, ida lupino
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