George was a busy man over the weekend. He set out some baby lettuce and finished caging the new blueberries and installing their irrigation! He has the bird mesh halfway up the sides of the cages and I really like how it’s looking overall. It’s set up along the very Read more…
Hello everyone, Cyndi here! Over the past few months, we have been using hydroponics to grow lettuce for my guinea pigs. They eat leafy greens daily, and keeping them stocked up is otherwise difficult. Romaine takes up a bit of fridge space and only lasts for so long whereas going Read more…
George finished planting the blueberries! We have sixteen plants of four different varieties for cross-pollination. He mixed compost and mulch with our clay and added something to lower the pH level of the soil. Blueberries love acidic soil. The plan is to finish surrounding them with landscape fabric and then Read more…
September was a tough month for us for a few reasons. Early in the month, both George and I caught COVID-19. We were up on our shots, so it only lasted a week, but right afterward, we got pinkeye, YUCK! A few weeks later Hurricane Helene destroyed all the areas Read more…
We attended a bee conference in Charleston, SC last month. While there, we stayed at James Island County Park in the camper and it was lovely. It was so hot but most of our time was spent at the convention anyway; we did enjoy a very nice meal at Florence’s Read more…
Until recently, I’d never heard of 3D fencing. 3D fencing is made of two fences instead of one. The inside is a taller fence with two lines, and the outside is a shorter single-line fence. Both contain hot wire. Parts List Parts for Gate Images from Unsplash.com
Hello everyone, Cyndi here to talk about my bee sting. So I mow the yard and my hubby weedeats. I use a riding lawn mower and though it takes me around 3.5 hours to mow, I enjoy it for the most part, maybe not the last 45 min as I Read more…
On George’s birthday in January, I bought him a bee hive kit from Amazon. He’d been talking about it forever so I just did it. Since then, he has joined a bee club and has taken classes on how to be a beekeeper. We bought two NUCs (nucleus colony) that Read more…
Hello everyone, Cyndi here. I preordered a book last year, The Women by Kristin Hannah, and read it when it came out in February this year. This was not the first of her books I’d read but I learned so much more this time. This particular book was about a Read more…
I wanted to share what George saw the other morning. The images are a little grainy but these woodpeckers were on our river oak and I had to show them off. If they were a little higher, my tree face would have ears! We have a family of Red-Bellied Woodpeckers Read more…
