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My legs are still sore this morning. He's a taskmaster, but he's whipping his parents into shape and we are loving it!
My husband started beekeeping this spring and it has become a family affair. Saturday afternoon, Chris and Christopher packed up to remove a bee swarm from a second story deck. I tagged along to take pictures. This swarm had been there about two weeks, but they had settled in!
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Look at that perfect honeycomb! The queen was playing hard to get. She was hiding in the rafters near where the hammer is hanging in the photo.
Christopher says he has a new appreciation for anyone who works standing on a ladder and looking up all day!
Two hours and quite a few stings later, they finally got the queen. Once they moved her to the temporary hive, the rest of the bees followed. So fascinating!
They were covered in sweat and nectar but those are some happy faces. Mission accomplished!
I had a pretty lazy Mother's Day on Sunday. My youngest son Jake made brunch...french toast made with fresh bread from our restaurant topped with homemade blueberry sauce. It was delicious!
Later, I visited at my mom's and swam with the kids, while my guys cooked a fantastic meal of homemade hamburgers, tater tots and egg rolls. It was a Mother's Day fit for a queen. That's what I call shining a little love on my life!
I made time to get my hands dirty in my craft room too, because today starts the new Cupcake Inspirations color challenge!
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Sounds like a beautiful day!!!! =) I love hearing about your bee's. So fascinating and interesting.
ReplyDeleteLovely journal and sounds like an interesting day! Glad the queen could be relocated - maybe now you need a scrapbook page about the hive and ladder adventure!
ReplyDeleteThank you and I hope you had a fab day as well! I’ll post soon about our apitherapy experience. THAT is fascinating!
ReplyDeleteYou know me already! 🤪 I’ll have some more fun bee info to post soon!
ReplyDeleteOh.. so pretty! What a lovely journal page.. and I had no clue how bee keeping was done!! Next time I savour some sweetness I'll remind myself to thank the lovely people who got stung to get us this nectar. Have you seen Milks Gubo's - crafty Milka's blog..she's someone who spreads awareness on bees too. You had a lovely mother's day Wendy.. what else does one need?
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing snippets of your weekend sounds like the perfect Mother's Day, yoga, crafting and eating! Gorgeous journal page. Hugs, Gwendolyn
ReplyDeleteI’m so glad you enjoyed it Gwendolyn! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a great Mothers Day. Love the video (and the backing music you chose!) :)
ReplyDeleteIt really was! Thank you Miriam. My 27 year old JUST discovered ELO!😂
ReplyDeleteQuite the mother’s day activities! I admire the people that can work with bees. My fight-or-flight trigger would be working overtime the whole time. :)
ReplyDeleteHa! Me too! My first reflex is to swat...working on that!
ReplyDeleteHard to do! :)
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