
As this is a queen castle, I wanted to paint it in a way that was fit for a queen -- or for multiple queens. For me that meant gold paint. I really like the way all four sides turned out, but the design

We decided to label each entry to make talking about what's going on with each section a little easier. Now that we have pretty much everything painted for this year, we've decided to color code the boxes when we add or repaint, also to make communication clearer and easier.
The first of the new bees will be here Saturday evening, and hubby is out setting up hives at new locations that are still close enough to home for us to maintain them, but far enough away to minimize competition for resources. We'll need to drive back and forth from the farm and home next week so that we can keep checking on the new-bees. It would have been a little easier had they arrived on their original due date, but nature has its own time table and we are learning to be flexible.
Another thing we are trying this year is planting vegetables in straw bales. If this works, we'll plant

Last week was also the week that our 43 trees arrived from Arbor Day, so I spent two evenings planting trees in pots and setting them up where they will get enough sun and plenty of water from the sprinklers. The daylillies are burgeoning and the trees I am growing from seed are still hanging in there, although my tomato seedlings are currently bigger than my magnolia seedlings. In retrospect, having to make multiple trips to and from the farm is not such a bad thing as we are rapidly running out of space to store all the things that are sooner or later heading south!
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