The Beekeeper and his Son

Finally the son was able to work with his daddy on the job. We recently bought a bee suit for the kids and GeoDe was able to try it out yesterday for the first time. He was pretty excited about it before and after, so I think it was a good experience. His comments to me were:

"A man stopped to take our picture, he lives by the stop sign."

"We have two queens mom. Noo, we have one queen."

"We put all those on there."(pointing at the labels on the boxes)

"We have a lot of bees."

Great job GeoDe!

My Little Photographer

GeoDe loves to take pictures. Because of this, we have more pictures of Dawn as a baby than we have of him. Which is amazing because he was our first and she our third. Here is a sample of his work.

"It is so fun to look at my calendar."

"It's beautiful."

"It's so fun to look at a picture like that."

by: George Dean

Chicks and Kids

OK! Now that we have had our chicks for 10 days or so, I am not feeling so stressed out about them, and we enjoy them a lot more. I now have some cute pictures of the kids and our egg layers and thought I would share them.

First, this is Loco, our black frizzle . . . we call him/her that because we find him/her up on the water quite often. If you look at both pictures you can see how many more feathers have been added to this bird since we first got it. These pictures were only taken 4 days apart from each other.


This is Sky High, our blue frizzle. I like this chick, it's a beauty. GeoDe is holding Sky and Lydia is holding Loco.

This is Lucky, she's a little barred rock pullet. GeoDe's favorite.

This is how I found one of the chicks sleeping. We don't have all of them named . . . and really I don't know which chick this is. They are growing up so much.
This is how Dawn enjoys the chicks. She does not hold them on her own, she watches them a lot and then we let her pet it while we hold it. She did try to get in there with them at first, then she fell in and she did not really like that.

Here are George and Lydia posing for the camera. Who knows which chick they are holding. (They might, but I don't.)

For Eva Ruthie

We went and bought us some new shoes yesterday. They are very nice . . . we spent about $10 and got shoes for me, Lydia, and GeoDe. Today Lydia told me that she wanted to show Eva her new shoes, so, we are posting a picture for Eva. I hope you enjoy it Ruthie!

Here are her cute feet in her shoes.

and the shoes

GeoDe's

Cute feet! (and mine)

Lydia loves you Eva!