It's been a hot bunch of days around here, for certain. I was hoping to make it home yesterday before him but he was already there. As I walked in the back door with two arms full of groceries he met me in the kitchen. I set them down and he gave me a hug and a kiss and went to get the rest of the things from my Jeep.

This time he walked through the door and sent the things down and took a hold of my hand and I turned to hug and kiss him. I put my arms around his neck and the...

Philosophers both professional and amateur have wondered how our society cam to be what it is. Most believe that our gins are rooted in the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. It certainly seems to be a sesible notion when we consider that an Athenian of 2400 years ago or a Roman of 2000 years ago would, apart from language differences, have little difficulty in adapting to todays's culture. Rome had more lawyers per capita tha modern America does. The Greeks and Romans produced huge amounts...

Life sure is strange, sports fans. All I wanted was two straight good days in a row at work to start off my week. Actually, this would have been five straight good work days in a row if you count the three I worked last week, but that's in the rear-view mirror now.

Funny how I can have a smooth shift until two things happen in my life: When it's time to go to lunch and when it's time to wrap up my shift. Things just went haywire today at both of those times,...

OK, so I checked the bees today, mainly interested in hive #2 but I stopped at #1 first- popped the covers, workers in the new deep. Didn't take it off or remove any frames. Cover back on, watched the entrance for a bit, then looked in (I removed the entrance reducers last check)- bunches of bees mounded at bottoms of lower frames...queen/swarm cells? Hellifiknow, can't tell, don't have time to rip them out and look. It was sunny when I started out into the field but now some nasty looking clouds...

Mother nature didn't do me any favors in the last week or so. The storms we had apparently brought some freak winds to my little valley. The young apple trees that I had left, the ones the deer didn't kill, are twisted and broken. They were the biggest and best. I doubt they can be salvaged, even if I can get some new rootstock and [try to] graft the few bits that seem to be still alive.

That puts me several years behind, I'll have to start over again. The semi-standards take 7-10 years...