{bits & pieces}
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Our bees survived the worst January on record — well, almost all of them did. It was so dreadfully cold for so long, without a break, that we were sure they wouldn’t make it. We hardly made it! Amazingly, two hives did. And then in the February thaw, when temperatures got high enough for Phil to open them up, nothing.
They had all succumbed to mites. This is so sad! All around us, beekeepers reported the same thing. There’s nothing to do but start again.
So this past week, a new colony was delivered, and after much agonizing over our shady, hillside property, we decided to move them to this spot, just above my garden. Phil hacked away at a bush that I’ve long hated (it was quince, which does have beautiful blooms for one week every year, and then looks like a scraggly blot on the landscape for all the others) and made a platform for them where they will, hopefully, get the maximum amount of sunlight in all seasons and be sheltered on the northwest by the berm.
We hope shortly to be able to split this hive and be back up and running with our apiary!
We have grandkids around who love seeing all things bee-related, and helping as much as possible (not much haha, and I wasn’t involved in the tying up of that little suit… doesn’t seem all that helpful to have ropes around your arms and legs but no one consulted me!). We have one child-sized suit, but children usually don’t care much about it — they are fine hanging out by the hive regardless. (It turns out that Phil seems to be extremely allergic to bee stings, so he does get the whole shebang on.)
The bucket is leftover from collecting the honey and comb from the top-bar hive. The new bees will clean up the stickiness of the residue in the container and the strainer much better than I ever could!
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If you follow me on Instagram, you see occasional loaves of bread and then you kindly ask me for my methods, etc. But I don’t know what I’m doing yet. I have found this IG account and his website really helpful, though!
David Clayton (with whom I wrote The Little Oratory) writes about beauty, and how it draws us towards the light and truth of God.
Tony Esolen on the body.
“Moving on” from the question of divorce and remarriage is urged enough that the spirit starts to go out of you. The clamor doesn’t die down; the memory of what the case really is does. It slips away. This article is worth rereading, therefore: The Forgotten Spouse.
Jeff Mirus, my husband’s colleague, wrote a good piece on Seven Mistakes of “Good Catholic Parents” that I thought you’d like to see. The problem is that anxiety often overtakes us when we just aren’t sure what the alternative is. I would simply say: these errors are avoided if we live our faith along with the Liturgical Year of the Church, as I so often urge here. That’s what our book is about. We can be peaceful if we just live and pray and trust.
Another older article, worth a re-read: Why only men [and boys] should serve at Mass. The only one I’ve seen that gives the reasons that it is not good for girls, and why.
We have to speak up about uncomfortable topics, because soon there will not be practicing Christians in positions that we need them to be in. “Katherine Asjeshad been named by Gov. Kim Reynolds to the Iowa Board of Medicine, but she had be to confirmed by the 49-member Iowa Senate. Asjes is the mother of six, the wife of a military veteran, a conservative Republican, and a practicing Catholic. She needed a two-thirds majority, but failed to get it as 18 Democrats voted against her.” The reason? Not going along with the LGBT catechism.
From the archives:
It really is so hard to be frugal and feel that you are buying the right kinds of food. Five thoughts about that from me.
Remember when I started a book club reading in Lent and it went on until Easter? If you couldn’t do it then, maybe do it now! Romano Guardini’s Spirit of the Liturgy. (All the posts are linked in this one.)
Lots of feasts today in the liturgical calendar!
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