Coyotes and Bees

We have been celebrating the Christmas Season . We start  on Christmas and go until January 6 and having our party on January 8 for Epiphany - celebrating when the Wisemen arrived to  the place the star guided them to.  When I was a kid we prepped all week . We have always had a party but we had to put on a skit or play an instrument, we played games and got little gift from our parents such as a shiny new penny for the new year to hold and save.  Party food was served and back then no phones, computers or the television on ...just family and fun!

We are out with the animals twice a day, even with work away from home.  They are our priority. Last night Dude went out to do the evening chores and was surprised , no startled, to find coyotes on our property!  He ran back in the house to get his firearm.  Then back out to take care of the animals. The coyotes were in a horseshoe formation just beyond the barn.  He quickly went and locked the goat and lamb in the barn .  They have never been that close.  I only wonder if the smell of the lamb is stronger than the goats.  This morning all is well.   Goats, lamb and chickens all accounted for.

Dude went out to water the bees yesterday.  It has been warm and we wanted to make sure they are taken care of before the big freeze comes in a week or so.  We had just gone out a couple of weeks ago and all was well.  Yesterday, a different story.... the hive was empty....totally no bees.  The one thing that was there was honey. So, we did bring that back up to the house. The frames were so cold that when we put them in the extractor nothing came out. So we brought all the frames (heavy with honey) in the house to warm and possibly extract tonight. Nothing like having a wheelbarrow full of honey frames in my living room!

Weekend goal to reorganize our food storage. 

peace