It was a busy Saturday – we got several things accomplished today, the biggest was our bees arrived and have been installed in their new homes. We picked them up in the rain about 9 am today and after some work to get some sugar syrup made we loaded the nuc’s on the Razr and

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We had some super nice weather this week in the Valley – up to 86 degree’s on Wednesday. Got a few things done around the house but not a ton of progress. About 1/2 of the garden beds are complete and we have quite a few starts in the greenhouse ready to go- need to

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Quick update post, been super busy the last few weeks (the last post was in February!) Weather has turned wet – but even with the huge amount of rain, we’ve gotten these last few weeks we are looking at a lower than usual rain year. Projects in the air for us around the grove include

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We had some snow this last week which was both exciting and frustrating. We haven’t had any snow this year so far and we really need the water – but it certainly slowed down our progress on getting outdoor projects finished. This storm only brought in about 2 inches of wet heavy snow that stuck

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I am a bad blogger, it’s already the middle of February and I haven’t posted much. We had some good weather recently, which is a double-edged sword – we need the rain, but the sun and warm was nice giving us some time to get some work done around the grove. We are fully in

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I haven’t posted much about the interior of the house. It’s an older home (in perspective) built in the 80s and it’s very solid. Home inspections by an inspector that Bridge has worked with for years didn’t find much that needed correcting. However… It’s dated and needs a refresh. The previous owner had some interesting

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While on a business trip to Minnesota, I became part owner of two former racehorses. I knew that Bridge was considered a horse and I encouraged her to find one that would meet her needs. Indeed she has been wanting to get back into riding badly for years, but until we moved to Ravengrove we

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My last post was in September and it’s amazing how time flies. Best intentions aside, between work, events, and other distracts it’s difficult to keep up with the blog. Quite a bit has happened over the last few months and I’ll have some specific posts on the bigger issues in the near future (lol). We

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