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“Many Drops Can Turn A Mill…”

Posted on 2022-11-21 Updated on 2022-11-21

Greetings and Salutations; Yesterday, for reasons yet unknown, a young man entered a bar, armed with several guns and started… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Family, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Improving Life, Observations, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations, Snake Oil, Vaccinations     Tags: altruism, ethics, lgbtq+, murder, stewardship, The Other     Leave a comment     


Helping Feral Cats Live A Better Life

Posted on 2020-02-02 Updated on 2021-02-02

Greetings and Salutations; One of the activities I have been involved in for many years is helping feral cats lead… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Improving Life, Observations, Ruminations     Tags: barn cats, Feral Cats, Free, habitats, Inexpensive     Leave a comment     


Crazy Cat Person – Dealing with many Litter Boxes

Posted on 2019-12-16 Updated on 2019-12-16

Greetings and Salutations! Sometimes it seems as if I have more cats than bees…and since I have NO desire to… Read more

Posted in Ethics, General, Heath, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations     Tags: cats, cleaning, litter boxes     Leave a comment     


Is this the End?

Posted on 2019-06-09 Updated on 2019-06-09

Just a little bit ago, one of the folks I see on my timeline posted a link, to a Forbes.com… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Improving Life, Nuttiness, Observations, Political rants, Politics, Questionable decisions, Ruminations     Tags: Christianity, Christians, denier, destruction, environment, Global Climate Change, storms     Leave a comment     


An Update On The Bee World

Posted on 2017-03-14 Updated on 2017-03-14

Greetings and Salutations; The world of the Bees continues to be complicated.    The issue of bee deaths is a… Read more

Posted in Beekeeping, General Thoughts, Hive and Colony care, Questionable decisions     Tags: ccd, colony collapse, Forbes, NeoNics     Leave a comment     


Where have all the bee-girls gone? Long time passing…

Posted on 2016-10-04 Updated on 2016-10-04

  Greetings and Salutations; Sigh….the world of the beekeeper is full of odd moments these days.    The problems with… Read more

Posted in Beekeeping, Cosmology, Ethics, Heath, Hive and Colony care, Humanity, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions     Tags: ccd, endangered species, Honey Bees, micro-robots     Leave a comment     


Saving the Bees….And Butterflies…

Posted on 2015-12-22 Updated on 2016-04-23

  Greetings and Salutations;      The bees in America have a lot of stresses that are causing them to… Read more

Posted in Beekeeping, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations, Uncategorized     Tags: butterflies, flowers, habitat, neonicinidoid pesticides     Leave a comment     


Hope For the Bees!

Posted on 2015-10-10 Updated on 2016-10-16

  Greetings and Salutations; Well, in these dark days of political insanity, bigotry and hate, there is at least ONE… Read more

Posted in Beekeeping, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations     Leave a comment     


Bees and Pesticides…Good Stewardship?

Posted on 2015-08-26 Updated on 2015-08-26

      Greetings and Salutations;      The destruction of bee colonies by Nicotinoid based pesticides not only continues, but… Read more

Posted in Beekeeping, Ethics, Hive and Colony care, Nuttiness, Questionable decisions     Tags: colony collapse, Earth, food chain, stewardship     Leave a comment     


Time slips away at the speed of thought, it seems.

Posted on 2015-02-09 Updated on 2015-02-09

    Greetings and Salutations;      I realized the other day that it has been six months since I… Read more

Posted in Beekeeping, Ethics, Food, Heath, Hive and Colony care, Nuttiness     Tags: Enlist Duo, EPA, GMO, pesticide     Leave a comment     


looking at the ravages of winter and neglect.

Posted on 2014-03-25 Updated on 2014-03-25

     Greetings and Salutations;      Well, for the first time in far too long, I hiked into the… Read more

Posted in Beekeeping, Hive and Colony care, Ruminations     Tags: beekeeping, colony collapse, hives, neglect     Leave a comment     


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