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The Iowan Path
iowabow:
On Tuesday I did a flint knapping demonstration for the Native American Art and Literature course for our south campus. They had a field day at Iliniwek Village State Historic Site. This is a very cool site and we were guided through the site by Earl Walrath treasurer of the Iliniwek cheaper of the Missouri Archaeological Society. When I make it back to the office I will post more pictures.
iowabow:
Things are really starting to come together now. Picked up a bush hog on Craigslist and it should make clearing the shelter area much easier. My first try at a corn food plot is interesting and it was planted by hand. The pile of wood is from a friend who tore off a back porch which also had a deck. This scrap and the wood cut with the mill this winter puts us on a forward path. After a long conversation with JW I just combined my two weak bee hives into one so now I have a total of three.
iowabow:
The corn is getting taller each day and the blackberry patch is coming on strong. We just ran out of blackberry jelly from last year's batch. So I am looking forward to blackberry jelly at breakfast again. The bees are working hard and starting on the second deep hive body. We are down to a 1/4 of a jar of honey and looking forward to the honey harvest as well. The weather has been cool this summer with light rains every couple days these conditions are keeping flowers in bloom longer than in the past few years.
Pappy:
Looks like you are making head way,you look like you have gathered enough supplies to get that shed started. Corn is looking good,blackberrys are just starting to come in here also. :)
Pappy
JW_Halverson:
Mmmm, blackberries! Once when on vacation out in Washington state, I fed my way into a blackberry patch like an old boar black bear. I quickly learned to only eat 'em if they FELL off the bramble when I touched them. I ate until I was full and didn't want another berry. I was 13 at the time. Luckily I have the digestion of a cur dog, I can about eat anything and do fine. I imagine most people may have had a little 'distress'!
Checked our swarm hives, iowabow. They are going gangbusters! At this rate they are going to surpass the two package hives we installed two months ago.
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