Not really. Today Mark had a big library budget presentation that took weeks to prepare for and meant he worked long hours past 5:00pm so that meant very little time left for me and the girls. Good thing I have a house to clean and a house to pack. Today, however, he actually made it home before dark and I was thrilled!
With the rain over the weekend, we couldn’t return the poor Pearl bees – ground too wet to take the truck in where the bee yard is at Deadman Creek on the Lazy U Ranch. So we waited. Just as well as Mark never got home in time to take them. We went today and though the ground was still quite saturated in some places, we were able to get back to the yard and the girls are doing fine. Mark was worried that they would not accept their queen back as she’s been out of the hive for about a week now. Thankfully, they seem to take her in fine so that’s good. They did have some queen cells made but nothing progressed far enough yet, which is also good.
With the 3.5 inches of rain we got, the small variety of wild sunflowers are making a bit of a comeback and the bee brush is probably going to bloom soon. It is a lovely, lovely ranch and the longhorns were also magnificent to see. As was the sky at dusk. I am soooo thankful we got an evening together to do “normal” things at the same time rather than me eat dinner early and Mark eat way too late. Can’t wait for him to be back full time.
Tomorrow we prep once again for the Pearl Farmers Market Saturday morning. Then Mark plans to pull some supers on Sunday and I’m not sure what I’ll be doing. I know what I SHOULD be doing but I will likely not pass up a chance to accompany Mark as it allows us to have some quality time together. 🙂
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