Tuesday, June 25: You can tell when it is really muggy by looking at the floor in the basement, where dark lines of condensation map out… Read more “smells; carrots”
Month: June 2013
grass
Monday, June 24: The old truck is painted a toothsome blue, and spun a trench in the gravel as it came up the hill from the… Read more “grass”
hiving a swarm
Thursday, June 13: We are very poor beekeepers. We lack method and discipline. We are inconsistent and dilatory. Yet every year, a few very poor years… Read more “hiving a swarm”
the grind
Wednesday, June 20: Milling logs for the new milking parlor. Teaching some of the Franciscans to milk. Collecting swarms of bees and losing swarms. Weeding and… Read more “the grind”
dry
Sunday, June 3: Hot and dry without so much as a drop of the rain so confidently forecast by whomever are the prognosticators of weather. Early… Read more “dry”
wet hay
Saturday, June 1: So much happens this time of year. The haying was last week, not going off without a hitch, but done now and no… Read more “wet hay”
sunday
Sunday, May 19: Took the small people up to Benders’ to fish this afternoon — the spring pipe is clogged and the water overflows the settling… Read more “sunday”