
Preparing for landing....

One of the honey bees giving us a double harvest...

A big bumble bee...

Pretty apple blossoms...
Preparing for landing....
One of the honey bees giving us a double harvest...
A big bumble bee...
Pretty apple blossoms...
Catching up on this week…
Last night's cotton candy clouds...
A Cuckoo Maran hen, who lays beautiful chocolate eggs...one of my fav's!
Bee food...a pretty apple blossom
Us in color...
Big Mountain...
More busy bees...
Smiling lamb...
Today's foggy morning...
The boys had a great strategy for planting onions, Sawyer would poke a hole in the ground with an old broom stick handle and wiggle it back and forth just a bit, making it just big enough for the onion bulbs to fall easily to the bottom when Garrett dropped one in. They would then go back and pack them in. Pretty easy!
Mark putting in fruit trees under a rainy sky...
Shoes were optional!
Hayden and Mark putting the finishing touches on the tree...
The tree against the sky...
The rain just missing us...
It was a fairly productive afternoon and we never got rained on, it was actually pretty warm! We’ll be putting some peas, spinach, asparagus, and rhubarb out today and hopefully we can get our potatoes, radishes and few others out this weekend.
The bees seem to have settled in their new home quite nicely and were really active on Sunday too!
Busy bees working away...
Last years bunch of bees was taken over by a group of angry wasps, but what a difference they made in our garden while they were around! We are definitely looking forward to having honey from our own bees eventually as we go through at least a half gallon of it per month and also having all the perk benefits of bees in our garden!
Sawyer...
Rechristened Butterscotch...
Our Australian Shepherd, Bellah's beautiful eyes...
Girls and Butterscotch...
Spring underway...
Busy bees...
Speckled Sussex feathers...
Dugur (Great Pyrenees) and Hayden and Garrett...
A little bronze turkey...
A little giant white turkey...
And then yesterday Mark’s birthday present arrived!
The label...
Teigen checking them out..
Mark's Top Bar Hive that he built
Mark removing the queen box...
Mark dumping the bees in...
Happily in their new home...
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