Pass It On
Suki and I spent last week in St Louis at the Heartland Apicultural Society Annual Conference (HAS). In other words, we buzzed around with fellow beekeepers learning about and, naturally, talking about bees. HAS hosted many excellent speakers as well as wonderful...
Happy Father’s Day
Here's a tribute to fathers. And here's the perfect gift for the first man in your life. Happy Father's Day!
Do You Have Any Honey?
It's the end of May and already folks are asking, "Do you have any honey?" "Sorry, not yet." Working with bees is a lesson in patience. We can't simply go out to the hive and turn on the honey faucet any time we feel like it. Plus, the production of honey and the...
Tuning Up to Transplanted Bees
Bees arrived from Georgia this week. Our bee association coordinated a bulk order of honey harvesters for new and expanding beekeepers and those little buzzers made it to Tennessee in neatly stacked boxes in the back of a...
Schedule for May
May is looking like it's going to be a busy month for bees and for speaking engagements as well. Here's a list of where I'm scheduled to speak so far this month: Saturday, May 5 -- 2018 Spring Gathering of Presbyterian Women of Middle Tennessee, First...
National Day of Prayer
I can’t let the day pass without making note of the National Day of Prayer in America. On May 24, 1774 Thomas Jefferson called for a resolution on a day of prayer and fasting for this nation. Since then, in times of crisis almost every president has called for the...
Viva Fiesta!
It's a "PARTY WITH A PURPOSE!" That's the subtitle to a ten-day celebration called "FIESTA!" I just returned from an RV road trip to San Antonio, Texas with two friends, Suki and Lee, where we experienced "Fiesta!" first hand. And I must say, San Antonio knows...
7 Steps to Sanity in a Crazy World
"Take a brake!" (No, it's not misspelled.) It's a line from the Christmas movie, Polar Express. Remember? The Hobo Ghost riding the train taps the brake with his mug as he shouts to the Hero Boy, “Take a brake!” The Hero Boy and his friends are trapped in a runaway...
Happy New Year
The brightly colored baskets are put away. Most of the eggs on the lawn have been discovered, until the lawn mower crunches them the next time we mow. The Easter clothes are relegated to the back of the closet. The chocolate buzz is winding down. And the family has...