The Perpetual Weblog

If you’re reading this, you made it to the new blog, hosted entirely off my home machine. I actually find it to be a little bit faster than the last one, I hope is stays that way. Anyway, I THINK I sent emails to everyone who posts regularly posts, but if you’re in doubt, send…

It seems amazing to me that I can badly sprain my ankle doing something so utterly daft and not one of my family gives me a hard time about it (or as we would say here “give me arseholes about it”). Have we become sensitive and respectful since I was last home .. ….I hope…

First the good news. The official word is that the “official” test for varroa mite confirms my sugar roll test – the hives are clean. The powers that be may yet decide to try to irradicate the mites in the south island. I got to inspect the test strips so it looks good! The bad…

Last weekend I attempted the “sugar roll” method of testing for varroa mite infestation of my hives. After carefull rolling, shaking and peering under my microscope ….no mites were found. Today the official testeds for Agriquality are testing my hives using a miticide and stickyboards. We’ll see tomorrow. On a sad note Leigh lost one…

Here is an interesting one. Yesterday morning Leigh and Calgary were walking in the pre-dawn darkness when there was an all mightly BANG, a flash of light and a duck fell from the sky. Calgary though it a gubshot, and ran towards the noise, leigh was scared spitless and was wondering what someone was doing…