Springing along

Things are really moving along this spring and we're hustling to keep up. A package of new bees arrived to replace one hive that didn't survive the winter. It has a distinctive sweet smell and a nervous hum.

 

As I installed the new hive, I noticed the old hive was really large and acting kind of funny. Sure enough, that hive swarmed the very next day and, despite my best effort to woo them back, took off and made a new home in a tall, tall tree. Good luck to them, I say. So I'm holding steady at two hives.

Ole watched the action from the top of this giant pile of compost we had delivered for the garden.

Most vegetables are planted in the garden now; I'm just waiting on warmer weather for a few things (like my precious, precious tomatoes). Here are the sugar snap peas and radishes, already much larger than when this photo was taken and this blog post was started:

First taste of sunshine and fresh air.

Tomatillos headed for the garden.

We've been talking a lot about camping as we prepare for our upcoming weekend camping trip, and I stumbled across a fantastic idea...tent naps! We had a perfect run of two days, so that's a success in my book. As I write, he's restlessly flopping around in the tent set up in his playroom, so it's not a perfect system.

And a quick nod to summery evenings=so wonderful.