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*The Renaissance Festival*

*The Renaissance Festival*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** What fun!….. What costumes!….. What great roasted turkey drumsticks!….. What could possibly be more fun on a Sunday afternoon in April’s sunshine?…(87F)….. Of course…it’s the Mead!….. …..It’s Always the Mead!….. …..I took my own hollowed-horn tankard (yes I have one) in anticipation thereof….. …..(now you really know why I want to have successful bee hives)….. Soon…I intend to be fermenting a lot of that golden-goodness into yummy-good mead….. My daughter just taught me…

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~~~Chilliness~~~

~~~Chilliness~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s finally here….. The doors are open…the A/C’s off….. …..everything is getting a (much needed) airing….. …..and we’re COLD(ish)…(70 degrees)…and it’s wonderful!….. I’m even celebrating the return of my Raynaud’s Syndrome…(which…as you know…I fondly refer to as my cadaver-fingers)….. …..(Why Are My Fingers White)….. …..(I wonder what it would be like if I still lived up North?)….. I’ve been keeping track of what’s happening in New York State….. Lordy George!………….that’s a lot of…

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Thanksgiving…..(huh?)…..

Thanksgiving…..(huh?)…..

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Geez!…Louise!….. What happened to November…..?….. November flew past at warp speed….. My wake-up call was the Winn-Dixie grocery store’s weekly-flier that came through in the mail….. I immediately zeroed in on the 49 cent per pound Frozen Turkey Sale….. …………………(maybe you remember how I get about meat that’s on sale)………………… ……………..(I get giddy…I arrange & re-arrange my freezer (to make more room)…………….. ………….like an addict…I hide the excess meat that I sneak into…

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*Potential Tropical Cyclone Number One*

*Potential Tropical Cyclone Number One*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Yep….. We have started the Hurricane Season for 2022….. …..there’s no slow warm-up to this year’s active season….. …..nope…..we just jumped right in….. Normally…..the real serious point of the hurricane season peaks around September….. …..(I hate to think what this September will be like if we’ve started off with such a bang this year)….. But…..we had a healthy wind-shear-going for this one…..(I hope it stays around for a few more months)….. I do…

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*B. J. To The Rescue*

*B. J. To The Rescue*

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* It seems like we’ve know B.J. forever….. I think we met during one of our first Florida State Fair Dairy Goat shows….. …..then the Florida State Fair Poultry shows….. Recently he came to our rescue with letting us borrow his slant-load trailer….. …..(because…surprise!)….. We had more pigs to take to the auction….. …..(btw—–pigs and rabbits…..reproduce easily)….. My older daughter and I are trying to aggressively and proactively get the…

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***Tractor Skills***

***Tractor Skills***

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*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* Anja is my younger daughter’s therapy horse….. Norwegian Fjord horses can be wonderful in that capacity….. They are strong…..compact…..not super tall…..and very kind….. …………………and patient as the day is long………………… My daughter’s previous horse was a Fjord too…..and Sonja was equally sweet….. We have been allowing Anja to stay in the front yard rather than in the back pasture….. …..that way my daughter can hang out with her horse…

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***Anja Had An Abscess***

***Anja Had An Abscess***

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We don’t know why it appeared….. It was on her neck where vaccinations are normally given….. …..but we haven’t given any shots since last summer?….. …..so an abscess coming up…..as a result of a vaccination needle…..is unlikely….. Hmmmmmmm….. But we treated it with the normal abscess-treatment-protocol….. …..and yes…..there’s an abscess-treatment-protocol….. …..(and I don’t recommend it for dinner table conversations)….. #1…..Daily hosing….. #2…..Drenching the inside with medicine….. #3…..Keeping track of her temperature (to make sure it doesn’t spike)….. …..(I’ve shown my…

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Doctor Atkins…….I’m Sorry…

Doctor Atkins…….I’m Sorry…

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I’m back on my diet again……. My holiday-hiatus is over……. It was only supposed to be a few days……. Not a few months……. I won’t approach our nasty/judgy scale……it’s never been my friend. …..plus, it’s always been eleven pounds heavier than my reality, anyway… I’ve inhaled every new flavor of Blue Bell Ice Cream that I could find…….I’ll have to wait for next year’s seasonal “Christmas Cookie” flavor to come back again……………..I recommend it… *****YOU JUST HAVE TO CLICK ON…

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Waging War On Robber Bees

Waging War On Robber Bees

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I’ve taken on the battle… I will win this war… I will… …..but whenever I feed sugar-syrup to my hives, I’ve discovered that they are almost immediately under attack from other, wild honey bees (no doubt subsequent generations from my past, absconded hive residents). However if left unchecked, an organized robber bee horde can clean out any residential bee hive very, very quickly. …….and everybody gets into a very, very bad mood……. I had a planned game strategy this week…

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Robber Bees

Robber Bees

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Honey bees are inherent hoarders… Honey…….is what they like to hoard…….their own…….as well as others… They organize hits and raids on other bee hives… ………….it’s a bee-thing. *****Robber Bees Explained*****(they are so mean) The trick is to have a strong enough hive who is able to protect itself & ward off other robber bees. They need to be able to protect their own hive along with its honey stores. Otherwise there will be honey-loss along with the loss of life…

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