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    We had a Clock Doc come to look at one of our grandfather clocks. It's the one that hubby's dad built from a kit in 1976. The doc said their life span is usually around 35, so it's not at all surprising that at 49, he's not running anymore. We had two options. (The third of doing nothing was...
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    A long time ago, I used to read a column by Sydney J. Harris. He had a series he'd write every now and then titled, "Things I Learned En Route To Looking Up Other Things." I learned about what makes jam set here. This was a handy link in a post about using honey to make jam. I also got a recipe...
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    I want to dispel a notion about "organic" honey. Unless you live somewhere where everything in a 3-4+ mile radius from you is organic, you can't be sure your honey is organic. Here in Michigan, nope, you don't have organic honey. I may garden using organic methods, but the farmer 1/4 mile away...
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    Right now, the bees are working the white clover. When I go out Japanese beetle hunting, I step carefully in the clover patches and watch where I put my feet. I am cautiously optimistic that we will get another harvest in a couple months. Bees like goldenrod, which will bloom in a few weeds...
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    Pictures of extracting honey. First thing: Cover the floor with paper (less slippery) and the face of the cabinets with plastic. The frames are in the extractor, and hubby is cranking. Looking down into the extractor. Two frames (removed) sit, facing out. The honey splatters out due to...
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    I'm finally able to transfer some pics from my phone to my computer. This is what the deer did to our car. Sorry, car. I hope parts of you live on in other cars.
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    OOOOO! Fruit leather...!
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    Re: making the jam. I smashed the berries in a big bowl with a potato masher, and then put them through my food mill. It removed a lot of seeds, but a lot of seeds were in the jam too. I had a thought today: I have a juicer! I could use that to make juice for jelly. I really prefer jam to...
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    @NanaK, those all sound good! I have one more to add: mix it into yogurt! I just made yogurt today, and though I sweeten it with honey, sometimes it just ... needs something. I picked some more berries today, and there are plenty more coming. I would like to figure this out so that I can make...
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    Well... it still didn't set up. No, I did not use low sugar pectin. I'll get some at the store next time I go. There are still a couple of pickings of berries out there, at least. It's going to get eaten, gladly, because it's tasty. I'll just have to spread it on the toast first, before the...
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    I made black raspberry jam with honey. I decided to play it safe and used pectin. I had to check on the flavor, of course. Yes, tasty!
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    Oh, forgot to mention that we did get another car. It's the same thing, only two years newer and grey instead of red. Or maybe I did mention it. Anyhow, it's here, it runs well, it better last us a long time, and I'll keep spraying it with deer repellent. I drove it to my chiropractor...
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    The swarm was 30-40 feet up in a tree, so no way to get it back. I've since read about luring them into an empty box with lemongrass essential oil. They're looking for a new place, and you set up something and make it smell good and they decide to move in. Except I didn't have any lemongrass...
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    Really hope so. We'll leave them alone for a week or so, and then check on them again.
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    In the original hive, the bottom brood box wasn't nearly as full as the top one. So we swapped their locations. Bees build up, not down. Now they have more space in the upper brood box. We did that as quickly as we could, put everything back together, and got out of there. The ladies weren't...
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    Hubby and I disagree about which box the swarm came from. He thinks it was the new hive; I'm quite sure it was the original hive. The swarm was a lot of bees. I think if that many bees had left the new hive two weeks after we'd gotten them in, the hive would have been nearly empty. As it is, it...
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    Linden, aka, Basswood, is a tree that honey bees like. We have three mature ones within 100 feet of the hives. They don't bloom every year, and they are taking this year off. What I didn't realize is that there are at least two more way off across the field. Very close, as the bees fly. And...
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    We're giving our neighbors jars of honey. I realized as I walked over to one house how really beautiful a jar of honey is in sunlight!
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    We put the emptied honey frames back in the box on the hive. You never get all the honey out of the comb when you extract, so the ladies have a treat in store! I'm not sure what they do with frames like that. I think they will "fix" the comb so that it's nice and neat again, and start laying in...
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    The boxes are made to fit the frames, so deep frames go in deep boxes, medium frames in medium boxes. There are actually shallow frames and boxes, but that seems a little too small. We (and maybe most) beekeepers use the deep boxes as "brood boxes," ie, where the bees live and raise more bees...
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