Getting Into The Bee Hive

I have been dreading getting into the bee hive.
I found a bunch dead on the driveway, and then the
activity has dropped from earlier in the summer.
It could be that since I got stung so bad, I have just
looked at them in passing and not getting to close.
So my husband, I was holding the camera, I am still
such a chicken. We took the lid off and this is the top
box.

The top box was so full of honey that my husband
had a hard time lifting it out.

Here is a picture of all of the honey all capped.
It is all full of sunflower honey. Isn't it pretty?

This is a close up of each of the cells capped.

This is the next box down and it too is filled with honey.
I don't have a extractor so I have to get one and a
hot, electric knife to cut the tops off but that will
be ordered this week so that we finally get to have
honey.
We will also get down into the brood box to check out
the health of the queen. I am thinking that it will be time
to order a new queen for this hive.
Have a great Monday!
Thank you so much for your prayers and your kind words.
They mean so much to me. I feel lots better and one of the
verses He gave that has always been one of my favorites,
" He tends his flock like a shepherd; He gathers the lambs
in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads
those that have young."
(Isiah 40:11)

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm. 107:6)

Life Catches Up

Life caught up to me this week. I am going to take
a few days away to regroup and think. I need some
time away from the computer to pray and seek
direction for this coming year.

Have a lovely weekend, and hopefully my feet
will get back on that solid rock, and my foundation
will be solid and unshaken.

Blessings to you all,

Much love from me to you,

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm. 107:6)

Field of Dreams Friday

The morning glories in the sunflower garden are
growing nicely. I just don't think the sunflower house
is going to be much of a house. The sunflowers are
so full of seeds now that the morning glories are pulling
them down. Oh well, I will try it again next year.
I have some other ideas I will have to try like maybe
making a Te-pee instead of a square.

Here is a picture of one of my ripe pumpkins. I
was surprised to find one already so orange.
Its stem is still nice and green and its vine is still
growing so I am going to let it stay there as long
as possible so that when it is September not August,
it will start to look like fall.

I think it looks so nice that the morning glories have
grown all up to the top of this sunflower. It just looks
so country.
I was just looking at the calendar and today is Friday
the 13th. I was looking as I have one more Friday before
school starts.
Then sadly I will admit, that once I take off my gardening
hat, and put on school teacher hat, my garden gets sadly
neglected to just on weekends. So do my chickens.
I will feed them and take care of them but for the most
part once school starts they become orphan chickens.

I hope your Friday is nice. We are supposed to have a heat
wave next week. It sure has been nice to have cooler weather.
So have a nice Friday

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm. 107:6)

Thankful Thursday

Today is a Thankful Thursday. I guess today I
I will start by saying how thankful I am for all of the
people God has brought into my life. I am thankful
that a year a go I took a very hard step of entering
the blogging world instead of just being a spectator.

I think it all started when I went into the library and
the librarian told me of a lady who had recently passed
away and she left all of her books to the library and would
I like to see them. Me of course, said yes, because I am so
nuts about books was all but jumping up and down.

The Liberian took me into this back room and on every
table rows and rows of tables were books on every
subject you could imagine. Painting, gardening, building
things, raising chickens, every kind of sewing you could imagine.
I walked up aisle after aisle just looking, I do think that is
where I bought my first chicken book. :)

I walked out of there shook to my very foundation. The Librarian
told me that the lady and never done any of the stuff that she
had books for that she had just read about it. I knew I was
fast turning into that lady, I was just reading about things and
not doing them.

My first thing was to get chickens. Then put we put in that giant garden.
Then I found blogs, I saw a community that made it easier to try
to do things, people who help people like me come back to life.
I started trying to do things again. Like taking pictures.
Seeing life through a camera lens. Something I never
had tried before.

Trying to write a coherent sentence is a challenge but knowing
people are going to read it for someone like me who had become
afraid of living out loud, Is really hard.

So today, I am thankful for bloggers like you, who give so much
back to the world by sharing what you do, and being who you are,
you never know how your life is going to touch someone else.
You never know how your words will give someone hope
and joy and make them laugh, or cry.

I continue to be blessed everyday and I am so thankful
that one day I stumbled into a place called Dog Trot Farm, and
she just talked about her chickens and her life in Maine and
through her beautiful pictures she gave me courage to try something
I might never have tried.

I am thankful today for people who shared their lives with me everyday.
I love that daily, you allow me to see a chapter in your lives and
so today on this Thursday, I am very Thankful for the this place
we live and write about, our homes, our families and of course,
chickens. :)
I hope your day is very wonderful day, this post was supposed to be about
my pumpkins but blogger kept turning my pictures so it turned into
this,
Happy Thursday!

Oh, that men would give thanks to the Lord for His goodness, for His wonderful works to the children of men!

(Psalm. 107:6)