Friday, July 27, 2012
SAUCY SUE'S PICKLED GREEN BEANS
My garden is producing lots and lots of green beans. I love them and I know in winter I will be dreaming about them. However right now I have had enough. I looked up green beans on google and came upon this recipe.........can't wait to try them. The beans,garlic and dill are from my garden. Saucy green beans.
GATOR IN THE POOL
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
HOT & DRY
Watching the poor cows deal with the flies and heat.
Birdhouses and Bee Balm
Black Eye Susan
The garden seems to be doing well even with this very hot and dry summer.
Wishing I could do a rain dance.........we need RAIN
Saturday, July 7, 2012
MY GUARDIAN ANGELS
NEWTON THE PIG IS GUARDING THE FRONT DOOR |
Friday, July 6, 2012
BAD BEAR
Bandit waiting for everything to go back to normal.
The past two days have been crazy for all of us here. On July 3rd at 3:00 am a very big bad bear decided to come for a visit. Not only did he wake me, Bandit, and Sadie out of our beauty sleep he pushed over the bee hive.
He sat there boldly eating my bees in the front yard. Not a care in the world,well maybe he is a bit hungry as they have closed his fast food restaurant aka the dump. Dogs frantically barking,me yelling he really didn't care.
Once day light came I knew that I had to put the hive together as best as I could. My son in law was dropping my grand kids off for the day at 5:45 am. I was going to relax this summer....ha ha ha.
After meeting with the bee inspector, filling out a bear damage report, fixing the electric fence -it didn't work-( in 30C temps wearing a bee suit) trying to blow up a pool for my grand daughter, fix lunches, snacks, tend to bee stings on three dogs, wipe up dog puke, wipe my grand daughter's bum, and take many phone calls from worried family and friends I tried to close my eyes for a few minutes.
How the time flys when you are having fun.
It was about 7;30 pm when I yelled HOLY CRAP that BAD BEAR is back. My grand daughter tells me "Grandma watch your mouth" She is almost eight and has all the answers.
This bear is huge and is in front of my house! He walks over to the hive and the bees are just crazy, dogs are barking, I'm banging metal dog dishes, phone is ringing and my grand daughter is watching cartoons! Next I know the bear leaves and I haven't seen him since.
Yes I still want to keep bees!
The past two days have been crazy for all of us here. On July 3rd at 3:00 am a very big bad bear decided to come for a visit. Not only did he wake me, Bandit, and Sadie out of our beauty sleep he pushed over the bee hive.
He sat there boldly eating my bees in the front yard. Not a care in the world,well maybe he is a bit hungry as they have closed his fast food restaurant aka the dump. Dogs frantically barking,me yelling he really didn't care.
Once day light came I knew that I had to put the hive together as best as I could. My son in law was dropping my grand kids off for the day at 5:45 am. I was going to relax this summer....ha ha ha.
After meeting with the bee inspector, filling out a bear damage report, fixing the electric fence -it didn't work-( in 30C temps wearing a bee suit) trying to blow up a pool for my grand daughter, fix lunches, snacks, tend to bee stings on three dogs, wipe up dog puke, wipe my grand daughter's bum, and take many phone calls from worried family and friends I tried to close my eyes for a few minutes.
How the time flys when you are having fun.
It was about 7;30 pm when I yelled HOLY CRAP that BAD BEAR is back. My grand daughter tells me "Grandma watch your mouth" She is almost eight and has all the answers.
This bear is huge and is in front of my house! He walks over to the hive and the bees are just crazy, dogs are barking, I'm banging metal dog dishes, phone is ringing and my grand daughter is watching cartoons! Next I know the bear leaves and I haven't seen him since.
Yes I still want to keep bees!
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