The Old Folks Home

[Alaskan]

Toilet is fixed and got my first row by row done for the latestarter memorial quilt.
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Trails are too mushy muddy alternating with super icy to take Ripley very far on them. She is not pleased.

One of my beehives survived the winter.

Am I remembering correctly?

You had 3, 2 years back, last year you had 2.... and now you say you have 1?

 

[Alaskan]

I've had 100% losses for a few winter's now. Winter is just too long and too harsh up here.

Love having the bee's though .

Ah... I forgot you hadn't gotten them to winter through.

That is a huge trouble up here too.

Once in Germany I went to an open air museum. . the ones with the super old buildings.

One building was for bees. It was an actual building.... so nice thick insulated walls. You could walk inside the building to check on the hives... since the hives were completely inside the building and so warmer.

I can't remember if they had a way to heat the building. Because it was a building , it had space for lots of hives and each hive entrance had it's own color so the bees would remember their home.

Anyway... here are some examples (because I just KNOW you need a building project)

 

[getaclue]

Penny, so sorry. Even though it's for the best, it's hard. I know.

 

[Cynthia12]

Penny.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Am I remembering correctly?

You had 3, 2 years back, last year you had 2.... and now you say you have 1?

The first year (I don't know when, it's been so long) I only had the one hive because I wasn't sure if I was going to like having 60,000 angry, stinging insects housed on my property. I did, and the next year I got a second hive. That's all I've had and I've mostly had 100% losses, with few exceptions, over winter. Blue Team and Red Team. I started with Italian bees, then moved to Russian, then a Russian-Italian hybrid and back to Italian. They are by far the sweetest bees. The Russians were a bunch of jerks.

I love the idea of a bee barn, but my property is long and narrow, and very wooded and not flat at all. Really not sure where I'd put that.

 

[sharron]

Things quiet here we like evening easy have to let the old girl go on Tuesday made the friggin appointment she cannot get up the steps or control her bowels isn't eating
I do not want to but keeping her going is for us not her

 

[bobbi-j]

The rock was so big that I could not move it with my foot. The survivor was trying to get out after we saved her. I had to bend down and pick it up while keeping her in. It would have been hard catching her out in that lot. It is very large.

I think I’d have been tempted to bring the lone survivor home with me....

Things quiet here we like evening easy have to let the old girl go on Tuesday made the friggin appointment she cannot get up the steps or control her bowels isn't eating
I do not want to but keeping her going is for us not her

 

[CapricornFarm]

Things quiet here we like evening easy have to let the old girl go on Tuesday made the friggin appointment she cannot get up the steps or control her bowels isn't eating
I do not want to but keeping her going is for us not her

Sorry Penny, rough decision to make.

 

[microchick]

Penny I am so sorry. We lost 2 a month apart so I know your anguish.

We knew Lucy our border collie was getting towards the end as she was one month short of 15 years of age. But having to let Dingo go due to the DM hit us hard. 4 months later one of us will out of the blue say Man I miss that dog. But like you said, the decision had to be made in his best interest.

Still it is a hard decision to make.

 

[ronott1]

I think I’d have been tempted to bring the lone survivor home with me....

I was tempted but just over the hill from there is a new outbreak of V new castle disease. Somewhere near 1 million chickens have already been destroyed in CA. We are on high alert here.