About Me and My Blog

I am a Christian wife, mother, grandmother, teacher, friend and who ever else I am. I have been married for thirty-one years to my best friend, Greg. We live in a small town in East Texas. I am the FCS County Extension Agent. I enjoy sewing, camping, gardening, spending time with family, traveling, riding with Greg on his motorcycle. I am learning about beekeeping, soapmaking, rainwater catchment and other farmish type activities.
The name of my blog comes from a sermon I heard once about a time when Paul had been arrested and was being taken to Rome as a prisoner. The ship, on which he traveled found safe harbor, for the winter, at a place called Fairhaven. The captain of the ship wasn't content with staying so he set sail again and later was ship wrecked. I apply this to my life in that I want to be content with where God has me and what he has for me. If I am not I may end up like the ship that carried Paul, shipwrecked.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

I went to a workshop today on backyard beekeeping.  How to build a Top Bar Hive.
 It was based on this book http://www.biobees.com/ .  It is less expensive and easier than a standard hive.  It doesn't produce enough honey for commercial purposes, but plenty for a family.  The main purpose is for pollination.  Greg said he would build one for me and I found out where I can get some bees. 
Before I got my chickens I checked with City Hall, I think I will just get the bees and not tell anyone.
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2 comments:

Candy C. said...

How cool! I would love to have bees for honey! I have seen the top bar hives, they look like they would work well. Shhhh...don't tell City Hall ANYTHING!! ;-)

January 15, 2012 at 4:07 PM
Cathy said...

Candy, this hive looks like something that I could do. A regular hive I think would be to involved for me. I am going to buy the book on the website and see what it is all about.

January 15, 2012 at 9:02 PM

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