Getting ready for the switch

                                    

 Here are some pics of them putting in the sewer lines. That was two years ago and now right before Christmas 2011 they want the tap in fee of $1,840.00 plus the expense of having someone dig and install the pipe to the tap in. But , what can ya do.
I have to get some schedule 40 foam core pipe to run under my double wide and break through the block so they can hook up at the end of the house that's closer to the tap in.
That way they won't have to did up that much of the yard. Good idea by the crew I'm getting to install it for me.
So today I'll get the pipe and all the fittings and start to put them together so I'll be ready to hook it up when they have their part done. Sounds easy enough, hope it will be.
Mark, my neighbor is using the same people to put his in. So we're going to coordinate our time to maybe have it put in on the same day if possible. He has some block I can use to support the pipe I'll be putting in and he also has a hammer drill that I can borrow to break through the wall.
The planning stage is well under way, and I hope things go as easily as I have planned. We shall see.

 Well, I never admitted to be a computer wiz. After doin my first blog, I just now figured out how to post another one. Not the brightest bulb in the lot.
 Anyway, since I last posted, I have harvested my fall crop of honey. I got a little over 7 gals. of nice amber honey. If October hadn't been so rainy and cold I would have gotten more.
Right after the golden rod was in bloom, it started to rain and stay cooler than October should be in my neck of the woods. The girls couldn't get out and gather nectar and pollen, so my harvest was down more than it could have been.
 Now that November's here, the weather changed for the better. That's good in itself, because, the warmer it is outside the better off the bees are. They can still get out and gather whatever might be available for them and they won't go into a tight cluster as they do in the winter. The shorter the winter the better off they are. Me too. I gettin too old for the cold that's comin. I'd like it to be in the 50's all winter, but that ain't gonna happen.
 I have four strong hives goin into the winter. Here's hopin that this Spring I will have those four hives to make splits with. I want to split at least two of the stronger hives and get my apairy just a little bigger. The more bees the more honey... funny how that works out.

Long Thursday....

Well, I got back home a few hours ago from getting some blood work done.
Now as you can see, or read, I'm watching my two granddaughters very carefully...
Always great fun to have them here and taking care of them, sorta, via the dvd player. I'd be in there now watching the movie, but Barbie? Seriously! No can do. They want to watch Tangled after that is over. Now I do like Tangled." Frying Pans right? Who Knew"?

Got a few things I could be doing, but I can't, with the girls here. Like hulling some walnuts, working in my wood shop, or checking on the bees. But when you're needed like I am, how can I say no. It's just something I just have to do. It's what grandparents are for, isn't it?

I have to go to my daughters this afternoon to watch my other grandkids while she goes to a much needed break from the kids. She's at home with them all the time while her husband works out of state and only gets home for a short time at a clip. Plus she has my 11th grandchild, her fourth, in the oven and should be here near Christmas. So she needs a night to be with some grown up talk...
So, it's a long day for me and I can't even practice my dulcimer because my son works night shift and is sleeping, thus the reason that I'm watching the girls.
And it's supposed to be my day off!!!