We have reached the sixth month of 2011. Today Johnny left home early to head to the part store and work on repairing the haybine. By the time I got home at the end of the day I could see as I road along Bybee's Church Road that he had been successful; there were two passes of newly mowed hay! Yay!
First order of business for me was to check on the welfare of my solo queen. Sadly, most of her nurse bees had expired and she, plus one lone nurse were alive, barely. Johnny and I had a little debate about what to do, I relented and tried his idea which was to take a single frame out of our strongest hive and see if that would work. I suited up and broke down the blue hive, Hive 1, but could not find a suitable frame so just freed the queen and her one remaining nurse bee. What will be will bee. Lesson learned.
When I returned to the mercifully cool interior of the farm house I started dinner preparations, shrimp again.
It was getting late by this time so needed to collect the eggs and check on the chicks. To my horror I found that another chick had succumbed to the attack of a hawk. These hawks an me will be at odds for ever! During the egg collection I found another one of my hens had started to set. Chickens come and they go. In spite of the hawks and other predators, they seem to survive.
By the end of the egg collection Johnny had returned from the hay field. Broken down again. Thus we arrive at the end. Tomorrow will be another opportunity and another story from the farm.
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