I love his and he loves mine

I often have dreams, sometimes they are glimpses. For example, last night, I dreamt that I was concerned about Jason's beehive and so I went down and checked on them and they were fine.
Today, I woke up to sirens, an odd and alarming sound in our rural setting. I looked out the front window and it was just a rainy morning scene. I looked out our back window to a flooded view of the fields and forest, not particularly alarming except for the beehive which sits beside the creek on a patch of higher ground that was being threatened by the rising waters. I donned my rain coat and galoshes and set out to inspect the situation. A few swampy minutes later Jason got a phone call... the bees are in the creek.... The hive sits up on slate and bricks, so the beehive was still in the high and dry, but there wasn't any dry ground around it and the waters aren't scheduled to stop rising for at least a day. This qualified as a minor emergency and Jason came home from work to rescue his bees. All is well now and we have a better idea of what will be an ideal beehive location... ( Not sure what the story was with the sirens, but the fire trucks, police, and front end loader headed back out not long after they had come by.)

I am very fond of the honey bees. I don't do much to help care for them, but I feel very affectionate about the sweet brood. I am delighted that I have a man that is inclined to have such a fascinating and useful hobby. I wish him lots of success and increases in skill and knowledge over the years, and look forward to enjoying the results! My personal hobby contributions are many, too many perhaps. Some of my enjoyments require family participation, such as gardening and goat raising. Right now the goat responsibilities primarily belong to everyone at this house besides me, and nobody seems to mind the daily feeding and watering. Milking is on hold while we wait for the dams to freshen, perhaps in March the milking will begin again as well as the care of little kids!

We love each others hobbies. I love Jason's beehives and wine making and the possibility of trebuchet building (which is a high hope for Chester too!), and Jason loves my gardening and goat raising and sewing and photography and harp playing and knitting and crocheting and writing and cooking and ..... like I said, maybe I have too many, but there are just so many interesting pursuits! We all love maple sugaring, and it is almost the sugaring season! Life is good.


















(The beehive rescuers)