Happy Birthday Sonya!

Today is Sonya's birthday. So leave her a comment letting her know how much you love her ;-)

We've known eachother over ten years now and each year keeps getting better and better.

Sonya is like a fine wine that grows more enjoyable as it ages, while I, am like a soft cheese, that grows more stinky, yet somehow desirable.

I hope your day is a lot better than this blog post.

Love you sweety!

A queen and 2lbs of bees

On March 19th I set up my first apiary. One of Sonya's co-workers keeps bees. One day he brought some in to her work. I got to see them, and it sparked an interest in me. I talked with Sonya's dad about the bees and I guess he got interested too, because now he's got a hive at his house that I look after.

Tomorrow will mark 1 month for the bees. This is their fifth week. The eggs that the queen started laying the first week should have hatched by now. From this point on the hive should start to grow in numbers as we progress into the honey flow.I'm excited. They're fun to work with and watch. They're so productive as well.

I'd love to go into lots of detail, but I think I'll save it for another post.

B-day Party

This is a pic from James' recent birthday party at our house. We had a great time with everyone. And as you can see the old roomies were reunited - soon we will all be wed :-)

Sickos

A co-worker pointed out to me that our blog was not getting updated as often as he'd like. Unfortunately the pictures that I would like to post are on a different computer than the one I'm using, so I have no appropriate photos and comments to post. So...

Yesterday my wife and I were talking in the car about how there are a lot of sickos in the world. She was referencing a particularly horrible article she read in the N&O, but I think this picture speaks volumes on the subject.

Puppy mistreatment by monkies has been going on for too long in the country where this picture was taken, while on-lookers just...look...on. It's so sad to see a puppy whose energetic free will is sapped by the choke holding strength of necklace wearing apes....Sonya please post something soon.