In my last post, I mentioned that we had a cool and rainy May. June started out with a bang and we had our first 90+ day on Tuesday. Yesterday took the cake though, with severe thunderstorms, an hour of continuous lightning and thunder and a nearby tornado. After I Read more…
The sun is shining, the grass has riz, oh what a wonderful day it is! After one of the wettest and dreariest Mays on record, we are finally experiencing some of the famed Colorado sunshine again. I got 6.4″ of rain for the month of May and we didn’t hit Read more…
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, sorry, that’s my fear of Congress. Swarming is actually reproduction 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 real snow of the season this week. Going from highs Read more…
We’ve had a beautiful summer with no long stretches of extremely hot weather but we’ve some impressive downpours. This past week, we got over an inch of rain in less than an hour. As Diana says, it’s been more like a Montana summer than a Colorado one. The gardens have Read more…
We had dinner with some friends last night who live in Singapore now, but are back in town for a few weeks. They were asking how the bees were and that they follow my blog from Singapore. I thought wow, that’s so cool that someone on another continent follows what Read more…