kenny ordered two “packages” of bees a few weeks ago. it’s time to get out the old hives, clean them up a bit (we actually have to clean them up a lot, with an acid solution, to kill any mites that could still be in the wood. these are deadly to the health of a hive) and get the area of our yard set up for their arrival in late april.
i celebrated by picking up my needles and casting on to knit a “honey cowl“. i’m using bamboo yarn which is very stretchy, so this cowl will hang low around my neck.
i like to refer to it as my “honeycomb” cowl as i think the “right” side of the piece resembles the symmetry found in a honeycomb. of course, there is no symmetry in my knitting. a few mistakes here and there make it more of a wobbly hive.
Yay for honeybees! We’ll welcome them when they come for pollen!
Love your honey cowl! Very pretty!
I just really wish I liked honey.
i think honeybees and honeying (??) are such cool things, but I hate honey. smell, taste, yuck. 
YAY FOR BEES!!!!!!!!
Yay! Bees.
I’ve totally got that honey cowl on my needles (kelly green color, gorg) and have not worked on it in over a year. It’s so pretty. I need to finish it!
We really need to decide if we’ll order a package of bees this spring or not. With a new baby and more chickens and turkeys to raise, plus the garden, I’m thinking not this year…will live vicariously through you, as always. You wouldn’t happen to want to raise a couple of feeder pigs to slaughter weight by fall so I can see how that goes for you too, would you? LOL.