One of our babies taking a drink.
This is the second crop from this field of buckwheat.
The field is looking good. The crop down below has again gone back to seed. I'm going to mow it down again, till it in and see if the seeds will sprout once more before the cold.
Got ourselves another hive working. This colony was extracted from inside a neighbor's wall. Couldn't believe the size of it when I got the wall open. The colony had grown to fill the entire space in the wall. Took several hours inside the suit to get the comb moved and the bees in the new hive. My wife and I created a large bee compound out of a blue plastic 55-gallon drum. We cut a hole in the top to accommodate the top of a 2-horse-power Shop-Vac. We gently vacuumed the bees into the barrel and emptied them into the hive once we got it situated. Lots of work, but a week later the colony has recovered and is going strong. We'll see.
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Sunrise: 6:28 am
Sunset: 7:52 pm
Temperature at Noon: 81 degrees
Sun's Angle at Noon: 61 degrees
UV: Moderate
Humidity: 63%
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