A Journal of Urban Living

It’s been a while:

• Bees – dead.  Very sad.
• Beer – kegged.  Not yet tasted.
• Garden – improved.  New boxes.  More Zoo Poo.  Tomatoes, cukes, squash, melons, beans etc.
• Chickens – not yet.

Do we install a gray water system first or get one of these.

Mine lives where that cardboard “nuc box” is.  That nuc actually contains my bees:

And here’s the photographer post sting:

And here’s the proud new beekeeper:

I have them.

• Beer – brewed Saturday. All grain-bitter. Next time we’ll use yeast that’s not past its (their?) expiration date.
• Bees – finished painting the hive. I just need to wax the starter strips. Oh, and I need bees
• Citrus – candied the remaining kumquats on Sunday. I’m not sure what we’ll do with them.  Sprayed the lemon with soap for an unknown pest.  I need to look at the extension site.
• Sprouts – started basil and cress micro-greens. Mustard sprouts.

We saw a swarm in a loquat tree on Echo Park Sunday.  The bees had decamped by the time I reached Kirk.