Last evening my family and I went to the Washington Farmer’s Market to sell some honey. The event starts at exactly 5:00 on Thursdays at the Washington square, and of course we were running behind (who doesn’t with three children?) But we made it in time and set up our card table. (Funny story- we don’t own a card table, but we had borrowed this one from the Jacksons for our family reunion a few weeks ago. We keep not connecting at the right times to return it, but apparently that was God’s intention. Thank you Jacksons!)
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Beginning Beekeeping
I’m well into my second year of beekeeping- In fact, I’m almost done with my second year! I’ve brought in and bottled a quarter of the harvest so far, there should be at least 90 pounds more to bring in. Now I just need to sell $300 worth and I’ll be solvent enough to do it again next year! I’m not quite ready to write a second post about the adventure, but I do want to point everyone to my writeup after the first year, here. This a very flattering picture that Emily took when I found my first frame of capped honey: (At first, Emily would regularly come out with me, sans armor, with the camera to take pictures. What a brave woman!)
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Welcome to the new piettes.com!
Welcome to the new piettes.com website! Please bear with me while I update things to get the same functionality that I had before. I had originally written the old website sometime in 2001, and I had been just incrementally improving it. But then I was hacked and a lot of nasty code was inserted into everything, and the scripts that I wrote to clean it up ended up trashing a whole lot of other stuff. So welcome to the new site!