The Swarm

Hello darlins... wow, this is a first ! Yesterday we had a swarm take up residence in the nuke that I had stored a couple of drawn frames into. And they just happened to be on the top with nothing in the bottom.... sooooooo ... I had to move things around a little. Took the top hive body off where they were and moved it to the bottom and put the bottom on the top. Then filled the top with some empty frames for them to work on. That's a top feeder I'm putting on filled with sugar water that will give them a good start and maybe they will decide to stay. They're lookin good ! Lots of activity !

My new garden

From the dump truck that was filled with wonderful soil that filled my 20' X 20' raised bed to all the hard work of getting it all raked and shoveled down to getting it planted (today)..partly anyway, took 4 days. It would have been sooner, but it rained for two of those days. I still have beans, acorn squash, and cukes to go in yet. Have to get a fence up to keep the pesky little critters out of it. Maybe they won't notice for a day or two :) Updates as it grows !

Not the Pickle Ball Court

No, this is not the beginning of a Pickle Ball Court.... but it is the start to a 20X20 garden area that I've been wanting for a couple of years now.... Guess Butch thought that this was the better deal of the two... We live on a rock ledge, so needed to put in a raised bed... the dirt comes tomorrow... we're just trying to kill the grass underneath with the black plastic.

Moving Day for Kim and Steve

In between the bull work, we sat around and shot the "bull". Dan, Steve and Kim's mom Marilyn. Dan, Kim Steve and Butch.

Moving day for Kim and Steve

Yes, we have a caravan !
Kim and Steve's new digs... Very quiet here, on a dead end road. Glad we had a couple of strong young (?) guys to help. Steve got one of the guys he works with to help.
Glad we didn't have the stairs here like we had at the apartment ! They were killers !
So, after we got everything loaded up on the U-haul and into every available car and truck, we headed for the new place.

Butch hooked up the washer and dryer while all the bull work was being done. Di and I helped Kim set up her kitchen... while all the bull work was being done..

Kim's mom had made a great lunch for everyone... so we stopped the bull work for a while and just enjoyed some "bull".

Glad it was a steller kinda day !

One of the last flower beds to be done

Sassy is really not helping here ! This is the last of the flower beds that needed attention. Looks like I have to move a few things around. The Black Eyed Susans are started to over run my Stargazer Lillies and Daffadils. We have a resident ???? skunk or chuck living in the rock. What ever it is, it's making a path and knocking down some of my flowers ! The only other ones we have to do are around the lamp posts coming up the drive way.... saved for another day... we're done for this day.

Flagpole Up

This was one of the other project for today... A little late for Armed Forces Day, but it's up for Memorial Day.