A few more...

Henry sporting my headband

the finger toes...proof he's Mic's child

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

I'd like to propose that we remove the password entry to our family blog. I've discussed this with a few members of the family and it seems logging in is often more of a pain than it's worth. Please let me know if you have a strong objection and why, otherwise I think I'll take it off making it much, much easier to participate in this blog.

Christian

Lee Doyle

Lee is starting to stand up a bit and balance. We have this little video camera called a Flip - and while it's not very sophisticated, it is very easy to shoot video and then upload it, email it, edit it, etc - so, testing to see how/if it uploads to the blog.
-Mark

Honey Time

I am sure many of you know we have been keeping bees this past year. What a lark (as Nan would say). The picture to the side is when they first came. They came in this small cage and then we "released" them into the hive we had built. Many thanks to the kids who helped me build the hive. When they first arrived, they came with a queen and about 10,000 bees. The average bee lives just 60 days. After about 3 months, we estimate we had about 50,000 to 60,000 bees. The queen lays about 2,000 eggs a day.

Just a couple of weeks ago, we extracted our share of the honey (we have to leave some for the bees so they can overwinter). Most of what we had read said we would be lucky to harvest 30 lbs the first year--because the bees spend a lot of energy building the wax honeycomb during the first year. An interesting note, to produce a pound of honey, one bee would have to travel the same distance as going around the entire earth 3 times. To do this, this solo bee would require 1 ounce of honey for food. It is definitely a good thing there are 60,000 of them. We were extremely blessed. We extracted 67 lbs of honey and 24 honeycomb rounds. What a blast. I would love to send everyone some honey, but I am not sure how it would travel in the mail. We will save some for you so when you come out we can give you a bottle or two.

Wynn David Woodman

Born 3:19 a.m. - October 10, 2008 - 8 lbs 3 oz - 21.5 inches

Favor

Hello everyone.
My cell phone took a bath (I think) a few weeks ago and as a result, I've lost all info. If you have a moment, will you please email me darbygal78@yahoo.com your cell number and home number.
Thanks.