Trueheart Gal

Bad bee news

We came home after two weeks away for the holidays and were devastated to find that the bees in two of our three bee boxes were dead. The honey was gone, much of the wax for their comb was gone, and the bees were gone. We found several dead wasps on the bottom of the boxes. We are so sad that our little bees did not survive, and are at a loss as to what may have happened. We have our theories, but they are only theories. The remaining box of bees seems to be thriving (see above), and we hope they continue to do so.

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Falling back

Tonight, before we go to bed (assuming that is before 2 a.m.), we set our clocks to “fall back” an hour so that when we wake up tomorrow morning, we will be all set for standard time.

Although the first day of autumn was technically Friday, September 23, it is when the days get shorter, nights get longer, leaves turn colors and we fall back, that the end of summer finally becomes real.

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Howling winds

Odd photo, huh? Well, this is hoping to indicate what happened to our olive harvest this year. It was pretty much decimated by a huge windstorm that blew through on the first of the month. Winds that were clocking in at 80 miles-per-hour knocked off about half of our olives, which is what you are seeing on the ground in this odd little photo. This was going to be the first year we harvested our olives to make Trueheart Olive Oil. The harvest is scheduled for late this month.