What are your goals for this year?

[Perry]

 "I hope Spring kicks in and repays us for the struggle with kindness and good flows!"

I second that. While cold temps and bad weather are not that unusual here, the length of this winter so far is starting to concern me. My hives were heavy, so I don't think that will be a huge issue for most, but if there is any kind of attrition reducing the size of clusters, it could get ugly.

[Jen]

Unfortunately I wasn't gifted with a Gram. My mom tho would make liver and onions once in awhile and it was all I could do to not hurl it in the potted plant next to the table.

NOW! Deer liver and onions, in deer camp, floured salt pepper cinnamon, right out of the pan is pretty tasty. But I prefer back strap and then deer heart. Eating the deer heart helps me bond with the animal that I just killed. Or sometimes I bury the heart back into the earth, depends on hard it was to kill the beast.

[Jen]

Ed ""It smells nice when you Cook it, but its nasty to chew on""

Something about bovine liver that I can't even smell cooking or chew it! Gives me the willies

[riverbee]

jano, a good thread you started here, i haven't really chimed in but have read all thoughts and goals for the upcoming season, i am in envy of you all.  my goal would be to simply be able to work bees this season, and for the remainder of my life without the fear of a sting and an allergic reaction. i suspect that i will be standing on the side lines again this season, teaching another by the seat of my pants, and his too...... , and keeping bees vicariously through all here.

i hope the remainder of my hives survive this very long cold winter. my other goal was to rear some of my own queens, but this may have to wait until next season as well. 

[Jen]

Well Riv- You are the propolis in this forum !! The glue that holds it all together. When I see and read your posts I Always stop and listen ~Hugs~

[Slowmodem]

Ed ""It smells nice when you Cook it, but its nasty to chew on""

Something about bovine liver that I can't even smell cooking or chew it! Gives me the willies

We give all those parts to the dog.  He seems to like them.

[Perry]

Hey River, why do you not feel you'll be able to work the bees at all this year? I thought the therapy had worked to the point that you were going to be able to?

[LazyBkpr]

Hey River, why do you not feel you'll be able to work the bees at all this year? I thought the therapy had worked to the point that you were going to be able to?

   Indeed Mrs Propolis!!!    I was hoping that with the therapy and a GOOD bee suit you would be capable???

[Jen]

Mrs. Propolis   

[riverbee]

mrs. propolis....that's a new one, and very funny.....

i didn't want to sidetrack this thread with anything i had to say, i have my own thread to do that on.....

this thread really was a good thing for me, and yet, was so hard for me to read everyday.  kind of 'wish i could be there', or 'yeah me too', type thinking.
my doc has a bit of a specialty and interest in venom immunotherapy, and thinks 2 years at the minimum irregardless of the protective gear.  we all know the bees find a way to nail us......she's just being a good doc, and i appreciate that. this will be my second year, or second season.  she says, "can you work the bees without being stung whatsoever, don't tell me you can because if you do, you are fibbing and be prepared to face a great risk".........
uhmmm, i can't add some extra words from her advice in here......  doesn't matter, but she's right...

so to get back on topic, it would be interesting to come back to this thread and find out how many of us have met our goals for the upcoming season?

[LazyBkpr]

I will keep you in my hopes and prayers Mrs River!! Or, err, Mrs Propolis!!!!


   Indeed..  I sit staring out the window in the morning with my coffee thinking about what to do, and how best to go about it..  I have second guessed and re thought my plans a hundred times, and in the end, I realize..  Wait!!  Isnt that what I planned the first time around?

[riverbee]

thank's lazy, i know you do, you will never know.

"Indeed..  I sit staring out the window in the morning with my coffee thinking about what to do, and how best to go about it..  I have second guessed and re thought my plans a hundred times, and in the end, I realize..  Wait!!  Isnt that what I planned the first time around?"

that's so true what you said lazy?  isn't it?  have done it over the years, and looked back and said, ok, next year........

[Edward]

Ed ""It smells nice when you Cook it, but its nasty to chew on""Something about bovine liver that I can't even smell cooking or chew it! Gives me the willies

We give all those parts to the dog.  He seems to like them.

We were 4 kids and the poor dog couldn't eat all of the horrible food that we didn't like to eat .

It was my oldest sister's dog so she thought that he should eat the food she didn't like first, but the dog Always ate from my other sister first .

It took some time till we found out how she got the dog to eat from her first.

She never told us, but looking under the table at her fingers, she had covered in gravy.

So the dog Always when to her because she made it more appetizing for the dog.

mvh Edward 

[riverbee]

maybe i am off topic, but.......and the thread is about........ ? .......

[LazyBkpr]

about our goals for this year.. It didnt say we couldnt say our goals were about NOT eating liver!!!