The bees are out and going. I checked this morning and they are busily taking the medicated syrup I gave them this weekend. That was fun...3 of my kids dressed in spare bee suits and escorted me as we opened each up, removed their winter food and replaced it with feeders and sugar syrup. The bees cooperated nicely, curiously surrounding the kids in their suits. The kids did well too - after I assured them they PROBABLY won't get stung, they allowed the bees to crawl on them, and they calmly watched the flights in and out of the hives with various reward for foragers.
I got assigned a student to mentor from our beekeeper's association starter class. In April these students will start their first real bee hive with a package of bees in new hives. I'll be on standby to encourage my student.
I think this is going to be a sweet honey season!
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
The widow's mite
So the conversation has changed...maybe that was the change we voted for?
Some of the first was the idea that by "not hiring lobbyists" he meant except for the ones he wanted. Like it was OTHER people who weren't as smart as him in that he can pick out the GOOD GUY lobbyists...probably like republicans would...he meant THEY shouldn't hire lobbyists...
Then, as long as a cabinet appointee makes good on the taxes he didn't pay - that makes him a good guy. Tiny Time pointed out he didn't have to...the statute of limitations had run out...(isn't that for when you break a law and don't get caught..?)
Of course, now the idea is that TRILLIONS are the new BILLIONS. Our outrage over the Bush Administration's $100 Billion a year for the war as unsustainable seems like chump change with the news every day that a check for another $700 billion was written to cover bonehead businesses who are wrecking our economy. Oh, they need the money to send to other business and banks so that THEY don't lose out on the bad investments they made, because, after all, that would be bad? Are you following this? It's all because of the evil people who earn over $250,000 a year. They did it. And they need to give Tiny Tim all their money. Now. I mean it.
Meanwhile the refugees in Darfur are sitting in the middle of the desert without any help, medical or food, because THEIR government through out all foreign aid workers. They needed to do this because these aid workers were likely to be complicit in arrest warrant put out for their president for crimes against humanity. So he showed them, no more aid. Now. I mean it.
Should that president get a bonus? Who is bad and who is good?
Some of the first was the idea that by "not hiring lobbyists" he meant except for the ones he wanted. Like it was OTHER people who weren't as smart as him in that he can pick out the GOOD GUY lobbyists...probably like republicans would...he meant THEY shouldn't hire lobbyists...
Then, as long as a cabinet appointee makes good on the taxes he didn't pay - that makes him a good guy. Tiny Time pointed out he didn't have to...the statute of limitations had run out...(isn't that for when you break a law and don't get caught..?)
Of course, now the idea is that TRILLIONS are the new BILLIONS. Our outrage over the Bush Administration's $100 Billion a year for the war as unsustainable seems like chump change with the news every day that a check for another $700 billion was written to cover bonehead businesses who are wrecking our economy. Oh, they need the money to send to other business and banks so that THEY don't lose out on the bad investments they made, because, after all, that would be bad? Are you following this? It's all because of the evil people who earn over $250,000 a year. They did it. And they need to give Tiny Tim all their money. Now. I mean it.
Meanwhile the refugees in Darfur are sitting in the middle of the desert without any help, medical or food, because THEIR government through out all foreign aid workers. They needed to do this because these aid workers were likely to be complicit in arrest warrant put out for their president for crimes against humanity. So he showed them, no more aid. Now. I mean it.
Should that president get a bonus? Who is bad and who is good?
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