Month: April 2007

I’ve posted a few photos for those with an interest. Go to the gallery and see: 1. Some shots of the our saffron harvesting this year. This morning I picked 92 flowers to go with the 50 picked yesterday. We harvested maybe another 45 in the week proceeding. We’ve never had so much saffron. 2….

We have varroa. I’ve been expecting it and now my hives have it. Colleen (Leigh’s mom and my assistant bee keeper)and I did the “sugar roll” test of all the hive today and in one of them found two mites in one hive. It just means its here. The “sugar roll” means taking about 300…

Okay folks, The Squid is now running on a Pentium III at about 500MHz.  From my point of view it seems about twice as peppy.  Your mileage may vary.  I think I have most of the links all fixed up and ready to go, but email me if you see something amiss, mmm-kay?

Well, the tests are back, and there’s nothing wrong with me…physically.  I’m not sensitive to gluten, no infections going on…nothing.  It’s all in my head (literally)!  I WILL go back to eating SOME wheat based products, but I have to admit that I lost 10 pounds, and do feel a little better in a general…

The Squid has been through another major surgery.  It’s running on the original motherboard with new memory, old hard drives, and old CPU fan.  I think it will now hold until I get the new machine from my friend…who promised it to me months ago.  My hand was forced because it was having memory problems…