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A tomato has donated some sprouts to our late season maters. I believe it came from jazzing up the spaghetti my beautiful gorgeous wife fixed yesterday. Really I'll be amazed if one of them makes it all the way. We'll just have to see.

Guess What I’ve Found in My Backyard.

Kin and the Art of Lawnmower Maintenance

It’s Been Awhile Hasn’t It

Growing some stuff again. Got three tomatoes from a friend and I'm going to start some REALLY late potatoes tomorrow. Not much but enough to say I did it.

The Bees Will Have the Buffet

From the scout to full on feeding frenzy. The Bee Gs (girls and guy) are trying a new feeding method. Seems the bees were hungry and needed a larger amount of food per feeding. It's not exactly how I want to use poultry waterers, but it is a wonderful idea. They can hold two gallons and that's a bit more than a mason jar.

Junior Beekeepers Unite

We put some pie pans filled with rocks out for watering the bees. This idea came thanks to a post Becky shared. It talked about bees drowning because they don't have anywhere to land and rest while imbibing. Pearce and I have experienced this, finding at least 10 dead bees in the wading pool.

Of course the munchkins had to get there pics taken with the "bee troughs". 

I never thought about bees needing water, but they do. Kristi keeping bees is turning out to be a real education. The only hard thing is desensitizing the kids to the bees. They are so funny. They'll stand next to one of the hives for 5 minutes then run when you tell them they're near a hive.