Yep, it's been awhile and I have no excuse except this is time consuming and I've been piddling around a lot lately. So, that said, here's some of what I've been doing - went across the pond - yep, a trip to England - 11 (yes, eleven) days away from home. I went with a group on a garden tour with the J.C. Raulston Arboretum and it was wonderful. Every day was another garden that was better than the one before - big, little, in between sizes, public and private gardens. But I was glad to get back to the flat land of eastern North Carolina. That's the longest I've ever been gone from home. And yes I took lots of photos but who wants to look at somebody else's trip photos - not me!
But I did see bees and beehives and there were bees in the walls of this chapel which is still used for services. It was lovely.
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| 1700's Chapel |
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| Bees in the wall of the Chapel |
Trip to Bald Head Island with the grandkids which is always great. I love that place - even with bad weather it's a great place to visit. Lots of trips to the river.
Trying to keep ahead of grass and weeds and I just gave up in the garden.
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| Beeyard - September 23, 2018 |
So today I checked the bees. I didn't take any honey this summer. Just not enough and I wanted to be sure the bees would have enough for the winter. I have started feeding again - front feeders on two hives and inside feeders on two. They don't have enough honey to last the winter and I'll just keep feeding. Hurricane Florence dropped a lot of rain here and this has been a weird weather year. The Farmer's Almanac is calling for a mild winter but that is neither a good or bad situation. If they don't have enough honey stored in the hive, they'll starve cold weather or not.
