All the Buzz at Honey B Farm: Updates on Everything

Since I haven't posted anything for about a week, I thought I'd post some updates.   We have been very, very busy the last week or so. Between the daily trips to Fargo for Harold's radiation treatments, yard work, and garden work, and fixing things and house work and chores, there is just no time! At least we aren't bored and wondering what there is to do! The garden is coming along well in spite of little or no rain (weeds always grow, you know), flowers are starting to bloom in my hanging baskets (I started those flowers from seed, takes a while for petunias to grow), and we have a couple more litters of kittens!   Remember Rosie and Catnip? They are eating solid food now and Mama Barbette takes them out for little hunting trips in the tall grass.
      Harold spent a couple days repairing my little garden tiller - it needed carburetor work and had a plugged gas line.   We also started the Farmer's Market this year again on Thursdays and so we set up our honey booth for that. I baked some 7 grain honey bread to sell along with that and some honey oatmeal cookies.   We did just fair, but things will improve as folks realize the market is up and going this year again.   Other vendors did fair also.   As the produce starts to come out of the garden we will do well.
     It's a never ending chore to grow your own food! I spend at least 4 hours a day out there doing something - watering, tilling, weeding, and later picking produce. I usually go out around 7 or 8 in the morning, and quit about 10 or 11 (or until the bugs drive me out!) and then put in another hour or so in the cool of the evening. We have over 10,000 sq ft of garden.   Soon I will add canning to my daily chores. My Mom is coming out next month from Indiana to help with the canning.   She really enjoys that and is a great help. She spends about 8 or 9 weeks up here helping out.   Every year we can up over 400 jars of stuff. Harold and I always laugh that everything we eat comes in a jar! Or a freezer bag. But at least we know what's in our food and it is all organic.   We cannot use any sprays or pesticides because of our bees.   Bees are doing well! We have 10 hives now. So - here's a photo tour of what things look like now.   Nothing real exciting I suppose some would say, but we sure do enjoy the simple living!