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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:33 PM
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Published On: Sep 08, 2007 11:33 PM
Back from the Beach...
It's been a busy few
weeks....
For our end of the year bbq I made a cake for each of the sciences: a dissected frog for my department (bio/zoology), a electron model of Zn for the chemistry people, and a catapult for the physics department (that's their big end of the year competition in the physics classes).
For our end of the year bbq I made a cake for each of the sciences: a dissected frog for my department (bio/zoology), a electron model of Zn for the chemistry people, and a catapult for the physics department (that's their big end of the year competition in the physics classes).
One of my best friends lost her little brother two
weeks ago, and I wasn't able to be there for his memorial service, but Georgia
and I headed up to Cape Cod this past week to visit with K.
E and D held down the fort, and everything seems to have survived our absence. D and his wife were able to stay till this Saturday, so we had extra hands at the farmer's market - always a good thing. I harvested carrots, new potatoes, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, snow peas, and herbs for market this week, and we're hoping that the local organic berry farm is open on the 4th of July - if so E and I can go and pick our weight in blueberries. If that works out we'll have plenty of berries for market this coming Saturday. E worked the bees while I was gone, and added two honey supers and a queen excluder. It's a little late, but better late then never. They should fill those two supers up very quickly, and we'll have honey in a few weeks. We are going to try using a wire brush to open the tops of each cell in the frames this year instead of the ancient electric knife we have - that thing scares the heck out of me, and it should go faster this way as well. This week I'll get the Togg doelings registrations in order so I can sell one or both of them this month - I think we'll keep Greta though, especially since the pasture they're on can definitely support one more goat.
Here are some pics from our trip to the Cape - I wish we had gone for happier reasons, but I'm glad we were able to spend the time with Gi's godmother right now.
E and D held down the fort, and everything seems to have survived our absence. D and his wife were able to stay till this Saturday, so we had extra hands at the farmer's market - always a good thing. I harvested carrots, new potatoes, beets, cabbage, cauliflower, snow peas, and herbs for market this week, and we're hoping that the local organic berry farm is open on the 4th of July - if so E and I can go and pick our weight in blueberries. If that works out we'll have plenty of berries for market this coming Saturday. E worked the bees while I was gone, and added two honey supers and a queen excluder. It's a little late, but better late then never. They should fill those two supers up very quickly, and we'll have honey in a few weeks. We are going to try using a wire brush to open the tops of each cell in the frames this year instead of the ancient electric knife we have - that thing scares the heck out of me, and it should go faster this way as well. This week I'll get the Togg doelings registrations in order so I can sell one or both of them this month - I think we'll keep Greta though, especially since the pasture they're on can definitely support one more goat.
Here are some pics from our trip to the Cape - I wish we had gone for happier reasons, but I'm glad we were able to spend the time with Gi's godmother right now.
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Posted: Sun - July 1, 2007 at 10:08 PM