The apiculture world is rife with puns, and I will admit that I am not immune from putting some really awful ones to use. All throughout the week, I would bring up bees or bee-culture things with co-workers; always throwing in a pun worthy of a resounding "boo!" (not the scary kind of boo, but more of the booing of one off of a stage).
I was excited; my hive parts were being shipped. "Sam, you should get bees; they're all the buzz!," said I to my co-worker; he looked at me like I was slightly crazy. I checked UPS tracking - a large, 70 lb (32 kg for the 90% of the world's population that is on the metric system) package was to arrive on Wednesday (today). That was Monday; the puns continued throughout the day. Most of the puns revolve around exaggerating the 'e' sound in words with 'be'; I'll spare you the pain of listing them...
My heavy box of high quality hive components arrived this evening. It is unfortunate that:
- It is February
- It is February in northern Minnesota
- It is February in northern Minnesota and we have three feet (about a meter) of snow on the ground
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You must “bee” all excited…I know I am!!!!
Don’t forget about Google Buzz!
Alex, holy bee twaddle, you are getting bee-ish. Way to go on getting hive(s) and one assumes - bees. I’ve been meaning to for a couple years - this still may not be the year. So where is this Snowshoe Farm & Vineyard? at your current (currant!?) house? or at your future farm? Whassup with that? Whatever the case, way to go Alex the buzz bee. We need more small scale bee raisers. I read a book I really liked about a year in the life of this beekeeping lady. If I remember or find it I’ll tell.
Vineyard & farm is currently at our home location. It is more or less experimental at this point. The grapes are being tested. We are not exactly in grape-country; but the varietal was bred by the UofM - but it meant for more southern parts of the state. I am sure I’ll post here about how they turn out in the spring.
Other things we have planted include a few varieties of hops, garlic, lingonberries, raspberries, strawberries, blackberries, black currants, and gooseberries.
And, yes, we hope to eventually have a bit more land (5 to 10 acres) - the ability to plant multiple fruit trees would be great.