May 2007

Do you have a roughly 6,000+ sqft large house, multiplex or apartment building in Seattle you would consider selling? Sorry for the brief foray away from beekeeping, but I thought I’d use this blog as a way …

I got a delightful surprise this morning, a note from Nicole at Nerve.com, an on-line magazine about sex and culture (and a readership of 1 million people), saying they’d like to interview me. Apparently, they …

A couple weeks back I installed a Pierco plastic frames in my hives, because I ordered them by accident (instead of the usual wax based frames). I was worried at the time that they wouldn’t take, because …

Let me be perfectly clear: this is not going to become one of those things like you see on Boing Boing, where they’ll publish a picture of absolutely anything that looks an iPod, whether it …

I mentioned a little while back that I got an e-mail from a local artist who wanted to audio record my bees for some music he was working on. Well, he and his friend Tad …

This is not how you get rid of a hive of bees. Not.

Got this nice note from Alyssa (you may remember I gave her a tour of my hives and pointed her in the right direction for starting her own): who knew larvae could be so thrilling!  …

Danny came by late last week just as I was about to crack open the hives, so I pressed him into service as assistant beekeeper. The morning’s work involved adding some new frames to the …

 Got an e-mail from local artist and dorkbotter Joseph S. today, asking whether he could come over and mic my bees. He says he’s working on a musical project that needs bee sounds, did a search for …