Hey yalls!
Hope you had a great start into the work week. I put my notice in on Monday, everybody was supportive in that It was probably the best seeing where the company is headed blah blah blah. I was able to put in 2 more paid vacation days Mon and Tues and work the rest of my days until next week and be done with it. The vacation policy at the new job isnt the best, but nonetheless, it is a full time, stable job, with 2 opportunities for a raise in 8 months (one 4 months after hire, and then they do their reviews every Feb) so hopefully that will allow me to save for a new 8 stall barn (might even do a 10 staller) and a new horse trailer. We also do need a tractor, but hubby thinks because of the round bales we need a BIG trailer. Oh well, one thing at a time.
My new bees are doing fantastic. I checked my purchased hive and they are eagerly eating their sugar water. My bait hive is loving their new location also, lots of activity. I have one more deep super that I may rig up as a bait hive and see if I can attract a 3rd colony. Now I am really getting crazy I think. But with this, we may be able to split each colony up in the fall, and go into winter with 6 hives. So the chance of one surviving the winter is much better when you have 6, versus 1. Hopefully this will also allow me to harvest some honey, but well see. My first new hive inspection is in another week, memorial day weekend, so I will check for burr comb (to make more wax
) and see how they are doing. I also need to order some more supers, I only had supplies for 1 full hive (2 deeps, 2 shallows) and 1 starter hive (1 deep), so I need more deeps, frame, shallows and other equipment. Still dreaming of the extractor but for now I will have to manually harvest honey as the occasion arises.
My mares are still at the breeders. They have all come into heat again with just a few days off from the last cycle (the regumate I gave them to synchronize their cycles did that) and all have been bred. Now we will see in another 2 weeks time whether they took, or if at least one or two took, thatd be nice. I mentally prepare myself to at least 4-5 breedings before they take, I think that is reasonable. It is also nice to see that Ransom, my yearling stud is figuring out his manhood. I will use him late next year to settled 3 out of my 4 brood mares for purebred black Clydesdales. He will go to stallion training next January and learn to be collected and controlled.
I cant believe it is almost time to put the garden in already. We had frost again the other day so I will wait until after Memorial Day to be safe. My rhubarb is ready for harvesting but I still have plenty in the freezer and cant seem to find anybody else to take it. We seriously have some of the best rhubarb in town, itd be a shame to let it go to waste. Rhubarb anyone?
I would have it smeared all over the stove top
I am just soooo excited. After 3 years of working for a startup and never hearing a "Thank you" or anything like that, being used like a floormat, I can finally move on- to the company I really wanted to work for. I haven't seen the contract yet but even if the pay isn't the greatest at the beginning, at least it is a stable company with friendly people, a full time job, and it is right across the street from where I work right now. 
Not sure what our neighbors were thinking.
