the flight of the bumblebee
May. 29th, 2011 08:34 pm(Posted late, this was actually written this morning.)
Yesterday while taking a break in the garden I was watching a bumblebee bumble along, doing his job for the flowers. Let me tell you friends, this wasn't any ordinary bumblebee, this was God's own bumblebee, and I ain't kiddin'. If you look at your thumb, tip to first knuckle, the bee was probably larger than what you're looking at.
It was fun to watch this epicly proportioned bee servicing the little tiny purple flowers that are now in bloom. He would fly to each flower and as soon as he grabbed ahold, he'd stop flying, the flower and entire little plant would lean over until the bee was upside down, nearly on the ground. As soon as the bee let go, the plant would pop back up. This routine was then repeated for each flower. It was funny to see.
It was a busy day in the garden yesterday.
There is evidence the woodchuck is back. He nibbled on a few of the radish tops and cleaned off the ends of most of the pea plants. He seems to favor pea plants. This is not good news for the garden. If he starts to see our garden as a deli we won't have much left in a week.
However, the herbs are coming along fine. Thyme, orgeano, spearmint all seemed to overwintered well and are lush and big. The berry patches look like they are headed for a heavy harvest. The garlic is going along well. I got the polebeans and one row of bush beans planted yesterday and hope to get more planted today, if I'm capable.
I took a completely graceless fall yesterday. I ended up on my back in the firepit with the full wheelbarrow on top of me. It probably looked worse than it really was. I was able to get up and finish the day without a problem. Considering I wasn't seriously injured, I wish it had been videod because the look of surprise on my face as I went over must have been hilarious.
Today is another story. I have one set of bruises just below my shoulderblades that make sitting back in a chair undesirable. All the musculature from there down to my lower back doesn't want to do much. I started out the morning genuflecting to reach things below waist level, but it's starting to loosen up now.
In more exciting news, we had our first harvest last night. I thinned one row of radishes, so we had radishes with supper and later made radish top soup. Still haven't tried the soup yet, but it smelled good.
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Yesterday while taking a break in the garden I was watching a bumblebee bumble along, doing his job for the flowers. Let me tell you friends, this wasn't any ordinary bumblebee, this was God's own bumblebee, and I ain't kiddin'. If you look at your thumb, tip to first knuckle, the bee was probably larger than what you're looking at.
It was fun to watch this epicly proportioned bee servicing the little tiny purple flowers that are now in bloom. He would fly to each flower and as soon as he grabbed ahold, he'd stop flying, the flower and entire little plant would lean over until the bee was upside down, nearly on the ground. As soon as the bee let go, the plant would pop back up. This routine was then repeated for each flower. It was funny to see.
It was a busy day in the garden yesterday.
There is evidence the woodchuck is back. He nibbled on a few of the radish tops and cleaned off the ends of most of the pea plants. He seems to favor pea plants. This is not good news for the garden. If he starts to see our garden as a deli we won't have much left in a week.
However, the herbs are coming along fine. Thyme, orgeano, spearmint all seemed to overwintered well and are lush and big. The berry patches look like they are headed for a heavy harvest. The garlic is going along well. I got the polebeans and one row of bush beans planted yesterday and hope to get more planted today, if I'm capable.
I took a completely graceless fall yesterday. I ended up on my back in the firepit with the full wheelbarrow on top of me. It probably looked worse than it really was. I was able to get up and finish the day without a problem. Considering I wasn't seriously injured, I wish it had been videod because the look of surprise on my face as I went over must have been hilarious.
Today is another story. I have one set of bruises just below my shoulderblades that make sitting back in a chair undesirable. All the musculature from there down to my lower back doesn't want to do much. I started out the morning genuflecting to reach things below waist level, but it's starting to loosen up now.
In more exciting news, we had our first harvest last night. I thinned one row of radishes, so we had radishes with supper and later made radish top soup. Still haven't tried the soup yet, but it smelled good.
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