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| I received an offering of leaves almost daily during the month of October, which I displayed around the house. |
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| Garlic planted and five inches high. |
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| Little man with a stick, always willing to help with any job. |
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| I usually take more care in my photography but I couldn't resist this shot of Lyra on the giants. |
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| My little squash shelf. We all get excited about eating a good squash with butter. |
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| Proud of MY sweet pumpkins they are slowly being eaten in pudding and have stopped taking over the house so much. Thirty six pumpkins on three plants, very good job bees. |
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| Gathered in, juiced, sauced and eaten. |
The bees & the bear
This is about as good as my camera skills are at 4 in the morning. My camera reads 4:26 am on September 12th. The black bear had been in the area and I had that feeling. ALWAYS listen to that little voice that says"electric in your hives tonight". Well at 4:20 I woke up Noah and he ran outside, not wearing much I'll just say he got sung, a number of times. Until he finally listened to me and put on his veil, gloves and let me tape his pants to his boots. Honeybees are NOT happy after having their hives pushed over in the wee hours of the morning by a chubby black bear.
Of course they flew to any light they could find, it was sad to see them the next morning looking for the hives in a dizzy confusion. Most of them did make it back and lucky the Queen survived. The hives are were than zap strapped and electric fenced. And the children woke up. Good Morning!
I think we made pancakes.
If your mouth isn't watering you have never tasted fresh honey comb, ask any bear they will tell you. We headed over a friends to extract our honey frames, before anyone else did.
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| Here I am starting to uncap the comb. |
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| Noah uncaps some nice dark honey. |
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| She got the job of uncorking the honey flow |
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And than this sea of green tomatoes was brought in end of October . About half of them ripped off the vine. I have box in the freezer of green tomatoes. I'm thinking green tomato mincemeat for christmas.
And finally a plug for the
Local FOOD Market
Saturday December 7th 10-2
It's what I do to support local food producers, food sustainability and change the world one squash at a time.
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This is about as good as my camera skills are at 4 in the morning. My camera reads 4:26 am on September 12th. The black bear had been in the area and I had that feeling. ALWAYS listen to that little voice that says"electric in your hives tonight". Well at 4:20 I woke up Noah and he ran outside, not wearing much I'll just say he got sung, a number of times. Until he finally listened to me and put on his veil, gloves and let me tape his pants to his boots. Honeybees are NOT happy after having their hives pushed over in the wee hours of the morning by a chubby black bear. 
Of course they flew to any light they could find, it was sad to see them the next morning looking for the hives in a dizzy confusion. Most of them did make it back and lucky the Queen survived. The hives are were than zap strapped and electric fenced. And the children woke up. Good Morning!
