Project Update

Garden:
It is really starting to take off.  We have lots of tomatoes (cherry, big boy, and beef stake) but they are all green still.  We also have tiny peppers (bell, and a variety of hots).  There are lot of squash and zucchini, and today we picked out first two summer squash.  Our pickling cucumbers are growing fast and I think I will be able to pick some in the next 2 days.  Our green beans are blossoming and out lettuce finally reared its head.  The peas are growing up the fence, but no blossoms yet.  The egg plant arent growing at all, so I think they are a lost cause.

The garden, it look small and empty in this picture.  It is actually very good sized with  easily 20 tomato plants, 6 pepper plants, a few peas, a bunch of green beans, 6 cucumbers, 6 squash, 3 lettuce that have come up, 2 egg plant, and 6 strawberry plants.

Bees:

We were more successful rearing queens this time.  Now we wait.  Last monday (before the holiday) we made up nucs.  A nuc is a small starter hive.  On that tuesday Aaron put the new queen cells (its a queen that has not emerged/hatched yet) in the nucs.  We have to wait 3 weeks before we can look and see if the queens emerged and are doing well (we have 2 weeks left).  Aaron says if we dont lose any honey that we easily have 150lbs already and that we should be able to meet our goal of 200lbs (last year we got 60lbs).  We are only managing 3 hives for honey, the others are all used to make more bees.  We started the season with 4 hives and now we are up to 11 at the moment.  Aaron says we will finish the season with 8-11 hives depending on how he decides to manage them.  Next year at least 6 hives are being dedicated to honey and the goal is 500lbs.  HONEY COMING LATE AUGUST EARLY SEPTEMBER!

House:

Aaron and I installed half of the living room floor.  Now we need to wait for the stairs to be finished before we continue.  It looks really nice and was super easy to install.  Other than that we are at a temporary stand still with the house.  Once the stairs are done we'll finish the living room and then we'll see how our wallets feel about the kitchen and bathroom.

Other than that we haven't been working on any projects.  Im feeling really good today so I'm excited to work on something.  I asked Aaron if there is anything he would like to me work on he said cleaning the car, so that is on my list.  Aaron is on vacation and he is excited to work on relaxing :)  He needs a real vacation.  Usually on his vacations he works harder than at work and then goes to work drained.  So far this vacation we went to the Cape and he has watched movies, played video games, gone swimming, ate yummy food, bee research, and mostly just relaxed.  But its only wed and he is talking about cleaning the basement, he just isn't good at doing nothing.