I started beekeeping in 1996 and have been doing it on and off since then. For about a decade, I kept a blog of my adventures. Haven’t updated it in a while, but ya never know.
A friend of Leo’s has a sweet project going: he’s submerged a bicycle in ocean water at the end of a pier. His plan is to leave it there until barnacles build up, haul it …
Pmatt sent me a link to this short showing tomorrow night at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF): The Girl Who Swallowed BeesAustralia, 2007, 9 Minute Running Time North American PremiereGenre: Animation A young teenage girl feels …
A few people have written to say that they haven’t had any problems with the Pierco frames, so I’m still at something of a loss as to why I’m seeing the patterns I am (and, …
I hadn’t looked inside the hives in any depth in several weeks, so I did a quickie inspection on Monday before folks came over for a Memorial Day BBQ. As per my recent routine, I was joined …
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 …