HOWTHORNE HOMESTEAD REVISITED

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March/April 1975
By Jane Musser 
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Clothed in his beekeeper's costume and armed with a smoker, Mick tore the plaster and some of the lath away from the wall, picked up armfuls of bees, and put them into paper sacks. He gathered about five bagfuls of the insects and took them to his own hive, which he had re situated about three miles from the house. (If he had located the hive any closer to our place the bees might very well have gone right back to their old lodging.) The new hive seemed to be doing well for a while, but eventually the colony's population dwindled an indication that Mick had failed to move the queen along with the rest of the bees. He did move some brood cells hoping that the little buzzers would make a new queen but, unfortunately, to no avail. We finally harvested 15 pounds of honey from our wall, though by just heating the combs in water till the wax melted, and then filtering the solution. We enjoyed delicious honey for months afterward!.

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We've been more than just busy at our new homestead we've been happy too. We wouldn't trade this lifestyle for anything. Oh, yes one more thing: February of 1974 brought another addition to our life a son. He'll almost certainly make our days more hectic but at the same time fuller in so many ways. If I can find a few spare hours in the next year or so, I'll write MOTHER again and fill you all in on more news from Hawthorne Homestead.

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