Sept. 24, Sept. 20 So we’re getting ready to harvest the honey, which means that last week I went up to the hive one morning before work and reversed the supers, putting the bottom one on top. Then I took the inner cover and insert a bee escape. A picture of of this process is [...]
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Visits
Posted in Hive check, Musings on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Random amusements
Posted in Musings on July 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Bees make the news a lot these days, probably more than they have since Africanized honey bees first entered the United States in 1990 and every apiphobe’s worst nightmares about bees. (Decent links are here, plus a map and a summary of what they are.) This time, the publicity comes because of Colony Collapse Disorder. [...]
Bee musings
Posted in Musings, tagged beekeeping, urban beekeeping on June 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Keeping bees on a roof has many challenges. My friend Joe helped enormously when he designed and built our excellent, heavy hive stands. (Below) With some chair straps to keep the hives secure, so far they haven’t moved an inch, despite thunderstorms with 70-mile-an-hour gusts. I continue to worry a bit about how well these [...]
An unrelated post
Posted in Musings on May 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My mother sent a short essay about my grandfather, Paul Henry Ziemer, and I think I will share it: Things my pappy taught me: My dad taught me that a poll tax was wrong because it kept the poor from voting and because it kept black men and women from voting. My taught me that [...]
Me, the bees & the doctor
Posted in Musings on May 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
When we were young, my mother taught several of us at home. We learned to read with a set of phonics records, workbooks and standard Montessori materials. We learned about science with whatever came in front of us. To demonstrate why the sun rose and set, our parents used an orange and a flashlight. We [...]
