Non-gas operated lawn mowers! It is hard to believe I am so far behind on my blog posts. Spring is a busy time on the homestead, especially a first spring! Two and a half inches of rain last night in about a two hour period has given me some time this morning to write as it is too wet to get much done! So much has happened in the last two months, I will probably on touch on most of it in an attempt keep this post readable! First, we lost our bee hive from last year, the bees ate the stores in the middle of the hive, all the way to the top, but did not eat the outermost combs. From the looks of it they ended up starving themselves out because they moved too far from the edges for them to reach them with the cold weather. We were able to salvage about 15 lbs of honey and a pound or so of wax out of the dead hive. We also managed to harvest a couple containers of virgin honey comb. This years honey harvest In this picture you can really see the pollen in the ho
We have Kinders! A little more than two weeks ago I took off my Army uniform for the last time, loaded into a car and headed back to Mn for the last trip of my military career. The ride home was an adventure in itself to say the least. First, we stopped at the Double B Café in Beloit, Wisconsin, this is a small farm café, that is owned by Ms Barbara Beeler, whom we will be purchasing a cow/calf pair of belted Galloway from. Since it was a Friday during lent Terri had an omelet and I had blue berry pancakes for a late lunch. They were delicious! We also tried their “duck butt” blue berry muffins, it is basically a blue berry muffin made with duck eggs. I am starting to see what the big deal is about duck eggs in baking, they were delicious and very moist! We also got to see Candy and Evie, our cow/calf pair. Evie is a little fire ball! I cannot wait for them to get here! After that, we headed about an hour and a half north east of there, to pick up three addit