Bees

Last weekend was a blur. Can't believe I am just now getting around to writing about it. First, Friday night, we took Heather and Jared to the airport. They are off to London for spring break. Saturday, Sally had to work at "House Days" at Bayou Bend. Since I couldn't go to Brenham I took a bee keeping class. Way cool! Sally and I are going to become bee keepers. Outside of being fun and just plain cool, it should be good for the garden. I was so pleased with the class that I went right out and ordered our bees. We are getting a 3# kit with marked buckfast queen. The Buckfast bees were recommneded to us by Donald Burger. he is the guy that taught the class. Buckfast bees are suppossedly the most "gentlemanly" of the bees. They don't get too aggressive and they make a nice amount of honey. Plus, the were developed by a monk. You know I like that. Random thought. Monks have given us good bees (Buckfast), good wine (Dom Perignon) and genetics. Way to go Catholics!!!!

Getting Ready to Move

Sunday started as usual. Taught CCE and then went to the Antique Rose Emporium (ARE). It always feeds me soul. How is that for sappy? Then Sally and I went to the airport for lunch saw an absolutely beautiful Cessna 175 as we were leaving. Next, it was off to Lowe's. Sally and I bought insulation and beadboard so we could finish the laundry room. We worked until 9:00 pm! Sally was a big help and we really got a lot done.

Monday we finished what we were doing in the laundry room. Got all the insultaion in the walls and got bead board up on two out of three walls. Also got the new closet about half way built. As I was finishing up, I hit the Temp & Pressure valve on the hot water heater. That is going to be about $100 screw up. Sally and I tried a new Italian resturaunt in Brenham. It was good. She also went to the Brenham ISD and talked to them about substituting. Then we were off the the rodeo. We had a good time but we were so tired we came home early.

Pedal Thru The Pines

Jessie and I conquered another hilly trail this past Saturday. We did the Pedal Thru the Pines in Bastrop and Buescher State Parks. 14 punishing miles thru the parks and then 13 realitively easy miles home. It was great. Jessie and I had a great time. However, Cameron joined us on this one. He started out great but then had two flats! After the ride we met Katie and Moose and Chris at the RoadHouse for burgers and birthday cake. It was Katie's 29th and we really had a great time. Jessie and Cameron went home right after the ride so Sally and I went to mass. heard a great homily from a great visiting priest.

Gardening

Sally and I finally got to work in the garden some this weekend. Before we started we went and picked up our new loveseat. Well, its not really new. It is a garage sale piece that we had recovered. However, it is Very cute!

After geting the couch we went to the dump. That's right, we buy our compost from the Brenham dump. It is a whopping one cent per pound! A full pick up load (1400 pounds) set us back just $14. We filled our raised beds and got everything ready for planting. Next, we went to an abandoned farm house in Brenham and rescued tons of plants (of course we had permission). We got TONS of bulbs ...Iris's, lillies, paper whites, and cannas. Also got something that we think is called firebush or hummingbird bush. It has very lovely orange flowers and I have high hopes for it. It lloks very lovely up against our yellow shrubs and mixed with the bulbines. We stopped early so we could go to mass. Finished the evening with a fab meal. Sally fixed us pork chops, asparagus and brocolli. Even had time to watch a 70s cult classic, "Harold and Maude".

I got up at 6:30 to finish our planting. It was made doubly fun by the fact that everything was frozen! Broke the crust on the compost and planted English Peas, onions and white potatoes. Finished the weekend with a quick trip to Hubbard Texas for my niece Megan's baby shower.