Slightly Off the Grid

(aka Maywood Living)

early spring

March 9, 2014

Bees alive as glaciers recede at Maywood

It’s sunny and positively balmy with temps in the 50’s as we trudge through the snow to get to the bees. Some parts of the yard still measure six inches of snow. This snow is not uniformly melting so much as it is receding, like a slow moving glacier. Or, to think more positively towards Continue reading

beekeeping, country life, honeybees, weather

beekeeping, early spring, end of winter, honeybees, honeybees in early spring, maywood living
March 11, 2013

Plodding and Stomping Toward Spring

The clocks are set forward and my sleep schedule is skewed. The delight of coming home to hours of sunlight will not have me springing forward into my day. I will be staying up too late for the next week and then feeling morose when the sunbeam that had finally started coming in my window to wake me delays Continue reading

country life, gardening, Mondays at Maywood, weather, wildlife

daylight savings, early spring, humor, maywood living, moles, mondays at maywood, mudrooms