A Busy BEE Kind of Monday!

 It's been a good Monday!

I was up earlier than Louis Dean and enjoyed some quality quiet time and coffee.

Sometimes I just need to have some alone time to think, pray and ponder.

This was our bits and pieces of a meal I served for lunch - as that's usually the first meal of our day.

We're trying to use up our food and not be wasteful - and it helps to be creative!

Thankfully, Louis Dean is easy to please and will eat just about anything I serve him - except for raw cabbage!

Louis  Dean had projects to do outside while I stayed in and worked on my denim.

Every time we come down to the ranch I bring a bag of jeans to whack up, trace squares with a marker and cut them out. I always have someone to sew a quilt for.

It turned out to be a warm day in Texas - it got up to 79 degrees here at the ranch.

I took down all the colored lights we had strung up on the fence line around the yard and we put up white ones in their place. We got half way around so I will need to look for more lights when we get home. I try to only buy the LED ones now but we will use up the others on things like this.

Sherry and I suited up to check on our bees after she got off work.

Tomorrow night is our Waco bee meeting and it will be good to have something to report.

We have gained a hive or two and lost a hive or two over the winter so we are now at six.

We checked on four and put a paper plate with sugar candy on top of the frames. We need to fix one more for the 5th hive.....which we plan to do this weekend.

These are the Speaker Box Bees Dean and Sherry rescued.

Once the weather warms up we will move them into a regular hive.

Can you see the golden pollen these bees are bringing in?

We're not sure where they arae getting it since everything still looks dead and brown.

I need to research what pollen is out there right now.

As Sherry and were sitting on the deck - we saw this beautiful sunset.

That's why we call that one the Sunset Deck.

The wind has been blowing all day long and after the sun set, it began to cool off.

I nearly had to turn the AC on in the camper today and tomorrow it's supposed to be even warmer at 83 degrees!

Louis Dean and I sat outside and had our own Happy Hour with white wine, sparkling water and a fresh raspberry and blackberry.

Dean stopped by for a short visit after he came in from work.

Sweet Rugar wanted him to know he was outside waiting on him!

I do so love a good Monday!!