After an appropriate mourning period, we adopted a new sister for Grace from the Aiken County animal shelter.
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Brian’s nonsensical ravings
A disappointing day. Went in expecting to have to add frames to all three hives. Found very few bees in any of them. Found uncapped brood in only one of them. Shrank the other two hives down considerably. Left the one with uncapped brood as it was.
Abigail –
Born Feb 5, 2018, 12:10 PM to Oreo and Clorox.
Farewell, Peanut – sweet friend. Thank you for making our family whole again.
What bizarre ideas spring forth from my little bee brain! Our hives are all still thriving, judging by the flurry of activity around them on the occasional warm, sunny mid-winter days here in South Carolina. Nevertheless for the past several nights running, my sleep has been broken by nightmares of an imminent zombee apocalypse. In … Read more
Exploring the idea that discrimination against certain behaviors in the conduct of business and life is not necessarily immoral even when based upon personal prejudice, and may in fact be a loving Christian’s only valid moral position.
The bittersweet air of Christmas time, and the remorseful reflection brought on by a thorough scrubbing of my contact list in preparation for sending out Christmas cards for the first time in many years.
Brian and Sue Hupp Christmas card enclosure letter – 2017.
A “war” story about the often deleterious effects of using cheater pipes on wrenches. A dear friend recently reminded me of how sections of pipe are sometimes put onto the handles of tools like pipe wrenches to increase leverage – often with “suboptimal” results. It reminded me of this story.