Mastodawn

My bee inspector is so awesome. I was low key freaking out because my double deep hive was completely full of bees but no queen cells even tho the drone cells are abundant and the dandelions are almost over their first flush and it's hot as hell now. I was worried that somehow it wasn't queen-right. But the inspector found that the hive was perfect, and he helped me do a walk-away split. So, in a week I check for queen cells in one of them, and in a month check for new eggs in that hive. He also explained the other possibilities, and how to deal in case something happens to my awesome current Queen. Hail to the Queen Bees and to the lovely experienced inspector that always makes me feel "not dumb"... 🐝 🐝 🐝
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Dawson’s Creek Cast Reacts to James Van Der Beek’s Death at Age 48

https://misryoum.com/us/entertainment/dawsons-creek-cast-reacts-to-james-van-der/

The Dawson’s Creek cast is mourning the death of their costar James Van Der Beek following his death at age 48. Van Der Beek’s family confirmed on Wednesday, February 11, that the actor, who portrayed the titular character on...

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Dawson’s Creek Cast Reacts to James Van Der Beek’s Death at Age 48

The Dawson’s Creek cast is mourning the death of their costar James Van Der Beek following his death at age 48. Van Der Beek’s family confirmed on

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MountainWitch ⛤

Oct 12, 2025

Yesterday I pulled a folded tarp off my little trailer thinking I should spread it out and secure it for the season... a very unreasonably annoyed bee came flying out of the tarp and slammed me at high speed, butt first of course, right in the middle of my forehead. Now, since I've been a beekeeper, I've only been stung 3 times, each an escalating swelling situation which makes me jealously side eye beeks that go gloveless or even veil-less, the jerks. So, I staggered over to some scraggly dried out lawn, (we've had drought) and try to find a plantain leaf that isn't gross and bug chewed, while the pain in my forehead escalates. Eyes watering, I stuff a questionable leaf in my mouth to chew while running back to the house to find a mirror to check if the stinger is still there. It is. And a large chunk of bee still attached, rest in peace ya wee beeatch. Scrape it off and glob on the chewed green wad of leaf. Lessens the pain fairly quickly, but too much time had passed. I knew it. I glugged down some no-name benadryl that wasn't quite expired yet and hoped for the best. My nose hurt later. Like actually hurt, like I had run into the wall. It felt like someone lobbed a 2x4 at me, smack in the face. My cheeks felt bruised. But it LOOKED ok, just painfully tender and slightly swollen. Fast forward to day break this morning. I pried one eye open to a slit, stumbled to the loo and low and behold, walnuts had grown under each eye, and one in the centre of my forehead. Strangest thing tho, the intense pain was mostly gone but the swelling was a thing to behold. I crashed around in the kitchen making coffee, dropping things until it seemed to get better on account of my mostly upright stature. Then, by the afternoon, the swelling starting sinking to my jaw. It was like one of those Black Mirror episodes where your reflection in the mirror changes while you're looking. Later it was better, although my daughter said it looked like a botox job gone very wrong. I am almost ready for bed now, it still feels weird to squint but my face wouldn't scare a young child any more. I am, however, thankful that I didn't get stung in my mouth or on my throat. I could have been writing this with much less fondness to the wee girls, from a hospital bed.
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Dead End Jan 5, 2023

What’s on my mind? Honey.

…And this scene, from the 1985 film, “Bliss” where the scorned lover sneaks about his beekeeping love’s bush retreat, secretly planting honey blossom trees, to send her a ‘love letter’ via bees.

The love letter that took eight years:

https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/bliss/clip3/

“To say Bliss was ahead of its time is an understatement: the bold metaphors and sharp satire weren’t appreciated by everyone in 1985. (Video excerpt 3.14 minutes This clip chosen to be G)”

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Bliss

To say Bliss was ahead of its time is an understatement: the bold metaphors and sharp satire weren’t appreciated by everyone in 1985. (Video excerpt 3.14 minutes This clip chosen to be G)

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Dead End Jan 5, 2023

2 …People, I actually cried when I saw how terribly denuded our original hive had become from poisoning and illness, and they whimpered sadly for weeks, in a way they never had done before. Heartbreaking sound. I’m so glad they have a possible future!

At the pro’s suggestion today, that we might just destroy our original colony and let the strong new one in, I was aghast. I’m hopeless, I’m sorry, I can’t! So now we have months of ultra-babying of this sick colony back to health, ahead of us. But I feel hopeful. 😀

It feels like an analogy for so many things right now.

#beeks #beekeeping

Dead End Jan 5, 2023

Good beehive news, maybe?

We had a professional beek around today. We had been nursing our colony through multiple poisoning events, bad weather and sickness. Dead and dying everywhere, and then oh no, we suddenly had a tiny colony without a queen?

So… we ordered a nuc with the idea of merging it with our (literally only) handful of survivors. We didn’t even know if they’d be alive when he got here. But when our pro beek arrived, he found a recently hatched baby queen!

I was glad to hear that our efforts to keep them alive with feed and herbal medicines was validated. But it’s still not certain that our surviving colony will have the numbers to make it through the next winter…

Anyhow, we added the new colony to our usual Flow hive, and transferred our original colony to a temp corflute box nearby. We’ll nurse them, and watch and wait and see what happens.

We also learnt that our new colony is some kind of mongrel (poss Italian hybrid), while our original colony looks like really dark Russians. TIL! If they survive, they’ll be moving into a new Finnish Paradise hive in a nearby veg patch… 1

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Squish Nov 24, 2022

Chilling with the #bees before the chaos begins. And I think there needs to be an #ObservationHive hashtag because I keep hoping there are more #Beeks like me out there (bee geek fyi). #BeeKeeping