Well, I try not to.  The pears sure are doing so, and sometimes when you step on a rotten pear….. Speaking of pears, the Comice had the best crop of winter pears ever this year, after the coolest rainiest crummiest spring imaginable.  The good weather window must have been open when this tree blossomed.  Winter [...]

Summer here was late late late!  For a vitamin A deprived compulsive gardener a long rainy June was cruel and unusual punishment.  But I am going to try to remember summer 2010 for it’s good parts.  It never got too hot or dusty.  We upped our apiary from 1 hive to 4, which all seem [...]