It's been a battle at the nesting boxes between the sparrows and swallows this year and I'm still not sure who is winning. Every time I look out there it seems a different set of birds has claimed a box. 😄 Speaking of nesting boxes, we're prepping the outdoor pen for the babies as they …
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Buzzing Right Along
The bees have been forced inside for most of the last few days by the weather, but it gave them a chance to get settled into the new hive and set up house. Which they did right away, including assigning undertakers to fly the dead ones off and guards to monitor the entrance. It's so …
Adventures in Homesteading: Meet Our Newest Additions
We finally have a batch of babies after trying and failing to hatch out more than a couple of roosters the last two times we attempted this. Well, once we let the mother hen do it and once we tried using our old incubator but both times we ended up with one single, solitary rooster. …
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Everything in its Place
We're rearranging our lives to accommodate our new hobby, which has already been taking over as much of the upstairs as my gardening fetish has been in the dining room. Don't get me wrong, I love that the hubs is into bee keeping as much as he is, especially since I'm not really into the …
Sidetracked
I meant to bring in the tomatoes and bell peppers, but ended up leaving them in the greenhouse overnight while the temperatures outside dipped into the low 30's. They seemed to be fine when I went to check on them, although not exactly as perky as they were the day before... The daffodils just outside …