This week is the three year anniversary of my mothers passing. You would think time would have ease the sorrow, but on some days it is if she has just left. Today while flipping through a website I ran across something silly and reached to hit the speed dial on my phone to call her. Oh man that hurt to have to stop and close my phone.
This blog is supposed to be about chickens and bees well mom gave me my great love of animals that started me on my life. She was a single parent and more times than can count we had our utilities turned off because we couldn't afford them, but we never were without animals. Dogs, cats, fish, for a glorious two years a horse. While her health was good we camped and hiked. Cheap vacations that took us out into a nature few of the kids around us ever experienced. The neighbors in any house we lived called our yard unkept, we called it naturalized! After one tiff with a neighbor we tore almost all the lawn out of the front yard and replaced it with vegetable and wildflower gardens.
There's nothing I would love more than to take a dozen eggs from my hens to mom. She'd just scramble them and burn them as usual but I know she'd say they were the best she ever tasted. Mom had a talent for destroying eggs in almost any form. I loathed breakfast food as a child. I wouldn't even eat eggs at a restaurant I thought they all tasted as nasty as moms. Mom would have adored reading my copies of Backyard Chickens. I got my love for learning about everything from her. Her jobs at doctors offices always kept us well supplied with a variety of magazines.
When my husband and I got our acreage and built a nice home mom was so happy for us. She and I spent long hours talking about what we wanted to accomplish out here. If someone offered my a winning lottery ticket or the chance to spend 20 minutes sitting on my patio with mom I'd never hesitate to choose mom. A warm summer evening with the the clover and buckwheat in bloom. Hens clucking contentedly and bees buzzing through the flowerbeds. To sit and talk about so much would be such an incredible gift.
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Friday, October 12, 2007
Why Racing Bees?
Well, I had to come up with something fast and that popped into my head. A friend's been bugging me to blog and I had to create an account to make comments on his so now I have a blog page.
A word of warning, I type dylexically and don't always catch it. I usually get all the right letters in a word just not in the right order and my spacing is frequently off.
If I do get this blog going it won't be a daily thing and it will mostly be about trying to get two projects up and running. The first is ducks and chickens for eggs. I have the coop built and hope to populate it in March. I have the order form ready to email to the hatchery on the last Friday in November cuz that's the earliest I can order chicks for March delivery. Hopefully by July of next year we'll be getting eggs.
The second project is Bees! I want bees. Probably one hive to start then two. So far the bee project has been mostly research and joining a couple bee keeping groups. It's not a cheap hobby to get into and I still have $3,000 in vet bills to pay off. :-( There's still plenty I can do and learn. I can get the critter proofed apiary set up with old fencing wire and build a couple hive tables out of scrap wood. If the husband has to work tomorrow I might just get started on that.
I'm going to the Bee keepers conference in November. The first real vacation I've had in well over a year. My dad said, "Vacation is two days camping at the beach in November with people who spend most of their free time sticky?" Hey, to me it's glorious freedom!
The racing part of Racing Bees is my love of Greyhound dogs. I have two right now and have in the past dedicated most of my life to rescuing ex-racers. More than a thousand dogs went from kennels through my house to adoptive homes. At this point in my life I am not involved in any of the organizations. I don't have the time fostering dogs requires. The 3 grand in vet bills comes form one of my dogs shattering a leg. After 6+ months, 4 surgeries, 2 trips to the ER and nearly dieing she has 4 solid legs again, hurrah! My VISA balance should be paid off by the end of 2008!
For not wanting to blog I wrote a lot. Blame it on the chocolate chip cookies I had for dinner.
A word of warning, I type dylexically and don't always catch it. I usually get all the right letters in a word just not in the right order and my spacing is frequently off.
If I do get this blog going it won't be a daily thing and it will mostly be about trying to get two projects up and running. The first is ducks and chickens for eggs. I have the coop built and hope to populate it in March. I have the order form ready to email to the hatchery on the last Friday in November cuz that's the earliest I can order chicks for March delivery. Hopefully by July of next year we'll be getting eggs.
The second project is Bees! I want bees. Probably one hive to start then two. So far the bee project has been mostly research and joining a couple bee keeping groups. It's not a cheap hobby to get into and I still have $3,000 in vet bills to pay off. :-( There's still plenty I can do and learn. I can get the critter proofed apiary set up with old fencing wire and build a couple hive tables out of scrap wood. If the husband has to work tomorrow I might just get started on that.
I'm going to the Bee keepers conference in November. The first real vacation I've had in well over a year. My dad said, "Vacation is two days camping at the beach in November with people who spend most of their free time sticky?" Hey, to me it's glorious freedom!
The racing part of Racing Bees is my love of Greyhound dogs. I have two right now and have in the past dedicated most of my life to rescuing ex-racers. More than a thousand dogs went from kennels through my house to adoptive homes. At this point in my life I am not involved in any of the organizations. I don't have the time fostering dogs requires. The 3 grand in vet bills comes form one of my dogs shattering a leg. After 6+ months, 4 surgeries, 2 trips to the ER and nearly dieing she has 4 solid legs again, hurrah! My VISA balance should be paid off by the end of 2008!
For not wanting to blog I wrote a lot. Blame it on the chocolate chip cookies I had for dinner.
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