March has been pretty dry and warm in Colorado and we finally got our first precipitation of the month yesterday. Luckily, we missed the snow which went south of us and today it’s supposed to be back up in the 60’s again. With all this warm weather, flowers and trees Read more…
This is not a post about bees (but I might mention them in the course of things). Meditation After I was diagnosed with prostate cancer, my urological oncologist suggested I use meditation as part of my therapy. Meditation has been scientifically proven to help people with certain medical conditions, like Read more…
We’ve had some unusually warm weather in Colorado for the first half of February. On February 10th, I hit 77.4°F in the bee yard (Denver broke the record high temperature for the month at 80°F that day) , but most days have been in the low to mid 60’s for Read more…
Seems like all my beekeeping blogging buddies are posting for the new year, so I guess I’ll have to follow suit. I’m really feeling that we’ve turned the corner after the winter solstice and am excited for another new year of beekeeping. My first seed catalog arrived and I’m feeling Read more…
(I originally wrote this post last spring, but am just getting around to posting now) The house we live in was built in 1967 and very little has been done to update it since then by us or the previous owners. When we moved in, all we did was paint Read more…
After an exceptionally warm and dry fall, the meteorological winter finally arrived at the start of December to bring in some colder (and wetter) weather. Last night, the temperature hit -8.5 °F (-22.5 °C) – the coldest weather in 2 years. We’ve also gotten some snow with the cold, so Read more…
Sarah’s hive was one of the most productive of my hives this year. Even though the bees did a lot of cross combing, they made some of the most beautiful and tasty white honey combs. The colony had been booming all summer and there where no obvious (at least to Read more…