Spring is the time of year when the thoughts of bees turn to swarming. Most people think of swarms of bees as something to be feared – images of nasty swarms swooping from the skies, terrorizing women and children. Oops, Read more…
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, …… First, the worst…. A sad day for a beekeeper is one where they find that one of their colonies has perished. Last year, I was relieved when Read more…
For Christmas, my wife got me a weather station that would allow me to monitor the weather in my yard through the internet. It took me a while to figure out the best place to put it (roof, side yard, Read more…
While my friends and fellow beeks are dealing with snow and cold in the Northeast, we are enjoying a bit of spring-like weather here in the West. As we meteorologists say: “Trough (cold) in the East, Ridge (warm) in the Read more…
The Winter Solstice is the shortest day of the year and marks the official start of the Northern Hemisphere Winter. This year here in Colorado, the Solstice occurs at 4:03 pm on December 21st. While there’s no denying that it Read more…
After a long and spectacular fall, winter weather finally arrived in full force. On Monday morning at 9:30 am, it was 68 degrees. By 1:30 pm, it was 23 degrees. Temps were sub-zero Wednesday night and we got our first Read more…
When my wife and I got married, I was finishing up graduate school and our “honeymoon” consisted of driving a car and a pickup truck pulling a U-Haul trailer from Montana to Vermont in 3 days. So, after 25 years, Read more…