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Tweet Beautiful March day here in Portland. It’s so sunny that my cheeks are turning red. The release box was crawling with bees this morning (the picture doesn’t really do it justice… I think I saw 8-10 of them). The flowering currants are suddenly on the verge of blooming: And this little lettuce that [...] Tweet So Bob, let’s call our newly emerged mason bee, was out crawling around in the cold dreary today. Isn’t he cute? Dottie, on the other hand, looks like some kind of angry dinosaur wearing a ridiculously loud hat. [...] Tweet Just a short note that, while I was in the kitchen making hot fudge sauce, wifey casually said “you know your bees are coming out?” Uh, no, I did not. Indeed, the little buggers had started exiting their cocoons right there in the fridge. I opened up the paper towel, and there were [...] Tweet I just had a bowl of ice cream with my kid. He’s two. I want to feed him things that represent “food” as closely as possible. Hence, all the gardening, chickens, and what-not. I try to buy local and reasonably organic (knowing that the standards for organic have become kind of bureaucratic and [...] Tweet It’s that crazy time of year in Portland where it can be 25F at night and 60F and sunny in the daytime. When I start to see action like this: I figure it’s getting to be time to set some bees loose. So, I needed a release box for the cocoons that [...] |
 
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