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My handmade felted wallet is empty
I shame-fingerly confess that one of the reasons I pursue beekeeping as a hobby is because I fantasize about selling beautiful beeswax taper candles and jars of honey with letter press labels. Never...
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How bees turn nectar into honey, a graphic explanation
These Daisies lulled me into a false sense of mutual understanding. I had no idea they’d freak out on me. I have some really fun memories of being a Girl Scout in the 1970s, especially the camping...
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No valentine from your honey? Try this
Pour 1 1/2 oz of whiskey, 1/2 oz. (1 tablespoon) honey and 5 oz. boiling hot water into a heat-proof glass. Top with a lemon slice. Every Valentine’s Day I make my husband a sloppy card with doilies...
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Whatever it is, tastes great with honey
Everyone loves St. Patrick’s Day celebrations, except my Irish husband. He grumbles that the parades and the pub crawls are American traditions, not Irish ones. And that tinting beer green is gross....
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How I value my time
I recently bought a tub of those new laundry soap pouches. Looks like an aquarium of baby jellyfish. Each cute jiggly 2-inch square pillow somehow contains enough concentrated soap to wash a load of...
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To recycle or to reuse. What rhymes with potato cakes?
I was half listening to John and the kids talk about potato cakes at the breakfast table, while I stood at the sink, soaking labels off empty jars, daydreaming about an abundance of summer honey. “What...
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Bees live in the strangest places. Well, maybe not in fresh meat.
Lyle’s Golden Syrup logo borrows the lion and the honey bees image from the Samson story. (Even though the “golden” inside the can is syrup, not honey.) The other night I was reading Myles the story of...
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Myth Busting
Beekeeping lore says that edible honey in pots and in comb has been found in Pharaohs’ tombs. Really? Fiona told us at dinner last week that chewing tobacco is laced with glass chards so users get a...
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Honey is a clear-enough liquid
Consume honey through the mouth only. I learned a lot of things when I worked in the coffee business, but the weirdest thing by far was the fact that lots of people squirt coffee up their butts. Many...
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