Bee's Guest House

[Dace]

Ah Bee....a bittersweet time.

You have good boys and while no kid is perfect and they all have to learn from their mistakes, rest in knowing that you have raised them well.

Knowing that you have a soft place to land in life helps to take the fear out of things. When there is no fear, you can really accomplish amazing things in life.

Congrats and hugs

 

[Beekissed]

Well, I didn't worry too much and went to bed and slept fine...and apparently so did he. He somehow missed all the parties and wound up down at the local gas station where his older brother works the night shift...slept all night in his brother's car!!

Poor kid...what an anti-climax to the senior year.... I let him know that this is often the case for many people~its never really as exciting as you watch on TV or you hear from other people.

Often its just a bunch of kids getting drunk and trying desparately to have some fun while they are inebriated. Never really looks like fun when you review it the next day. Mostly folks do embarassing things that they don't want their kids to know one day.....

 

[Henrietta23]

Congratulations!
For me graduation night meant talking to a bunch of people at a party that I had never talked to in 4 years and never talked to again. We hung out in different crowds but learned that night we had a lot more in common than we thought. It was really weird.

 

[Beekissed]

Ah Bee....a bittersweet time.

You have good boys and while no kid is perfect and they all have to learn from their mistakes, rest in knowing that you have raised them well.

Knowing that you have a soft place to land in life helps to take the fear out of things. When there is no fear, you can really accomplish amazing things in life.

Congrats and hugs

Thanks, Dace! That makes me feel some better! I know my parents place was the last place any of us kids wanted to "land" and it motivated us to do better. I don't know which way is the proper way to be....be such an annoying mother that they don't want to come home and will succeed for the sheer fear of having to live at home? Or being such a nice mom that they aren't scared to come home but may never want to leave?

Ever see that movie, Failure to Launch?? I sort of have that situation here....

 

[Beekissed]

Congratulations!
For me graduation night meant talking to a bunch of people at a party that I had never talked to in 4 years and never talked to again. We hung out in different crowds but learned that night we had a lot more in common than we thought. It was really weird.

I hung out with some of my nerdy guy friends until some of them had to be home, hung out with the last one down at the football stadium and talked until the sun came up. It wasn't exactly exciting but it was worthy.

Not exactly a wild party experience, though....

 

[Henrietta23]

Congratulations!
For me graduation night meant talking to a bunch of people at a party that I had never talked to in 4 years and never talked to again. We hung out in different crowds but learned that night we had a lot more in common than we thought. It was really weird.

I hung out with some of my nerdy guy friends until some of them had to be home, hung out with the last one down at the football stadium and talked until the sun came up. It wasn't exactly exciting but it was worthy.

Not exactly a wild party experience, though....

But memorable nonetheless!

 

[Beekissed]

Finally got most of the garden in...just a few more rows extra where I can plant succession plantings of leafy greens, carrots, radishes, onions and might put in some more taters and more wildflowers.

I still need to plant some marigolds and such also.

For some reason, the garden seems much bigger than it ever has...I don't recall having this much space last year! I think trellising the maters along the fenceline and planting the corn and the bigger pumpkins in another plot must have really freed up some space. This is great!

So happy to have things in the ground and waiting to grow.

I will tell you all this much, planting clover in the pathways was the smartest gardening move I've ever made. You can walk on it and it mashes down and then springs right back up. It is very moist and cool, deep and lush. I am overseeding my crops lightly with the same clover to get some good moisture and weed control. Wherever the clover is, weeds are NOT! Hallelujah!

Fed the bees more but was unable to look into the hive due to stormy weather....just set the feeder on top of the hive until tomorrow evening. I know this isn't the best idea but better than an angry swarm of bees.

They seem quiet today and I can't wait to look into their space.

ETA: Got to finish the bees, let the queen out of her cage and place their feeder inside the hive. The bees were very gentle and were working on drawing comb. Yay!

 

[Beekissed]

Have decided to sell Ugly Betty...my first sheep culling.

I've never really liked this sheep much and her conformation isn't the greatest but she was a bargain that was thrown in with my first pick ewe.

She doesn't appear to be bred but I could be mistaken....she was riding Black B. the other day during her regular heat cycle, she is not filling out in the flanks like BB and they would have been bred at the same time, and she has figured out how to slip into my garden gates....in about 2 minutes she ate almost all my pepper plants and some of the tomatoes!!!

She climbs in the lawn furniture, she chases the cat, she eats the apple trees and she's mean to the other sheep. I'm afraid she will try to butt the lambs that are coming this month. She is just not the kind of temperament I wanted here....I've had her for a year and still can't even touch her nose without chasing her in a corner and pinning her down.

Ugly Betty will be offered up for sale as soon as possible. Black Betty will miss her but she will have Mo to keep her company and they will bond better without the Wicked Ewe from the West to keep them apart.

Such is life on the farm dot!

 

[Farmfresh]

I don't blame you one bit. If there is one thing I cannot stand to have around is a "confirmed wild" animal. After they have had a good chance to realize how nice I am, what good things I bring, and the way things are - they need to calm down and fly straight.

My sister has a gelding named Texas. He is totally beautiful. A 16.2 had dark buckskin with zebra stripped legs, webbing over the ears, dorsal stripe, transverse stripe... nearly perfect coloring. He is also well built conformation wise and was used as an outside course hunter jumper when she first bought him, so he is talented as well. He also has to be CHASED every time you need him and she even has to chase him down to FEED him!!! He wants nothing what so ever to do with humanity. I call him my Y2K rations - even now that Y2K is long, long past!! I would keep that stupid horse about 3 seconds if I owned him. Beauty, talent and all.

 

[Beekissed]

Yes, I understand that, especially in a horse. They are so big and so able to inflict damage, its imperative that they be somewhat managable.

I like to have animals I can work with, too. It aggravates me to reach out to give an animal a food bit and she holds back and looks like I'm going to eat her...after all this time.

Black Betty is more docile and willing to get close, be friendly and doesn't get into trouble around the place. Little Mo is even more nice and I can put my hand right on her back, pet her sides or hold her easily for inspection.

Ugly Betty? Might as well try to catch a deer! I won't really miss her when she is gone. :/