Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Bee loss and baby gain

It's April something and life has changed drastically since the last post. Sadly, I lost the bees this past winter. I'm still not sure exactly what happened but one week they were flying and the next week they were not. When I went into the hive to check on them, it looked like Pompeii in there. It was sad to see the girls, frozen in time.

I have a boy now. Whistle Emmett Foxbury. He's the most amazing, beautiful thing I could have imagined. Actually, he's more amazing and more beatiful than I could have imagined.

I plan to start anew in Spring 08 with new bees and I hope to show Whistle just how cool this bee business is.

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

Honey Extraction





Recently, I extracted honey for the first time. My friend, Jan, who "owns" the bees, came over to help with the initial phase. We removed all the frames from the hive (well, at least the ones that we could safely remove honey from - you have to leave enough honey for the bees to eat during the winter when they can't forage) in a few hours. After that, I think I spent a total of 14 hours spinning the honey out of the frames using a hand-crank centrifuge. We extracted over 8 gallons of honey. It's the sweetest honey I've ever tasted.

Friday, September 23, 2005

Bird & Bee Honey

I am enjoying my first foray into beekeeping and plan to extract honey for the first time next week. The gals have been busy all summer, foraging all over the Northside.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Tuesday, September 13, 2005

and so it begins

after a morning spent reading blogs, I've decided to throw our hat in the ring. Dave, if you're not going to make the film documentary of the Life of Lulu, this will have to suffice.