One: I can’t get over how cute these bees are. Fanning off their hive to stay cool.
Two: Taking my son out of school early to get a treat!
Three: The tasty treat! The most delicious brownie ever made!
Four: My favorite place to run. A few hills to keep it challenging, paths without traffic to keep it quiet, and bridges to keep it interesting.
Five: Crusty bread right out of the oven with fresh honey creates a perfect side for dinner.
That’s our favorites of the week!
It’s getting cooler in the mornings, but it’s still pretty hot out during the day. A few weeks ago when it was consistently 100′ during the day we were worried about the bees getting too hot.
I guess we don’t have to worry too much about them, the bees seem to take care of themselves. When they get too hot in the hive, they hang out in the front of the hive. It’s called bearding. Because it looks like a beard, Ha! Crazy to see.
Why do they do that? It gets so hot inside with thousands of bees they need to relieve some of the body heat. Several bees move to the outside to cool off the hive.
Bees also blow in cool air by fanning at the entrance of the hive.
This is the cutest thing.
Who knew? 🙂
Today was a fabulous run for me.
Ran around my usual course.
The weather was beautiful. 70′. Cooler than it has been so it made the run easier and very enjoyable. I’m at a 11 minute mile and still working on getting my speed back!
For lunch we went to Shake Shack. A new restaurant in town and we had to try it. They were packed with a line out the door! I guess everyone needed to try it as well.
I wasn’t going to take a picture of my lunch, but it’s memorable. This place doesn’t have a selection for a vegetarian. The only sandwich without meat was a ‘shroom burger. It’s a cheese filled fried mushroom. I’m not into mushrooms so I I told my brother I’m good with fries and part of his shake.
He ordered me the mushroom burger anyway. Which was very nice of him. When he ordered, the cashier warned him two times this sandwich doesn’t have meat 🙂 I thought that was funny!
I should have taken pictures of our lunch. My brother said his hamburger was just ok. All the burgers were a little larger than a slider 🙂 He said the french fries were ore ida fries, and the shake…. This is what I should have had a picture for. The shake was 3 inches tall! The cup was three inches tall and the shake did not go over the rim.
We had a good time and lots of laughs at lunch as always.
I asked Aaron if he would go back. This was his face. I don’t think he will be back. It was fun to try something new.
With only a 3 inch shake we needed something sweet. We picked up Eli early from school and went into Provo to my favorite dessert shop, Taste.
I love their bathroom faucet 🙂
We are back together! I miss my little boy when we do our Monday lunches.
This place makes their own chocolate. Eli is looking at the chocolate production next door.
The menu. All the chocolate items are made with their chocolate.
We ordered molten lava cake with raspberry sauce.
S’more Taste Style. Layers of cake, graham cracker crumble, chocolate custard, strawberries with a toasted home-made marshmallow. Arron was so impressed he wants to recreate this one! This one was excellent!
Brownie with ice cream. The brownie is why we frequent this shop. I think it’s the best dessert on the menu. Making their chocolate next door makes a huge difference in the taste and it is truly a wonderful brownie.
As always it was a fun Monday and a great start for the week!
I’m excited to share our five favorites from this week!
One:
It’s been so hot out, our tomatoes have struggled. We FINALLy were able to get 3 ripe tomatoes out of our 30 tomato plants.
Two:
The flowers in our yard are looking beautiful this year. Our bees are loving them.
Three:
This little guy started kindergarten and is loving it.
Four:
Our bees have been busy. We have had fresh honey these last few days. It’s delicious.
Five:
Talking about bees! I’m getting brave around them. I don’t jump as much when they buzz all around and I finally touched one!
That’s our favorites for this week!
It’s been a while. Time to taste our hard work….ok, the bees hard work!
We removed a few frames from the big hive.
Cut around the frame.
Put it in a zip lock baggie. Zipped it up and cut a TINY hole on the bottom for the honey to drain.
Moved a table into my family room 🙂 Taped the bag of honeycomb to a computer monitor stand and let it drip.
Give it a few days and it will leave the wax in the bag and pure tasty honey in the jar.
Mmm… crusty bread right out of the oven. Honey out of the hive. Very tasty dinner!
My little pea is in kindergarten! I’m so excited for him.
I’m going to miss him during the day, but he is going to a fantastic school and I know he is in loving hands. The teachers are great and they see what each child needs. They ordered 1st grade curriculum for him and will continue to work with him at the level he needs.
Went for a run. Worked on speed today and really pushed myself. It sure was different to just…run. No little coxswain to tell me, “run faster, mommy.” “It’s boring when you run slow.” 🙂
It’s Monday, so we went to the prison for lunch.
They all asked where my son was. I guess we go here a lot 🙂
See that empty chair. That is little pea’s chair. We tried to take a sad picture, but it looked terrible, so smiles it is. But we were really sad he wasn’t there!
I had to eat my egg and cheese bagel by myself.
After lunch we went to schmidt’s bakery for a treat. They have the best chocolate mint filled cookies.
My laptop died this morning so that evening my computer guys tried to fix it. So far it’s not looking good.
Thank you for fixing my video on my blog! 🙂 Even though blog work isn’t very fun for him, I appreciate all he does. I really love his guy.
Did it work? Are they dismantling the “broken” frame and moving the wax to another part of the hive?
The bees were on it! Looks like the experiment so far is successful.
Before…
After…
We will check on the frame at the end of the week to see how it’s doing.
Albert from Eco Bee Box gave us a frame with three layers of wax. A normal honeycomb that is built by bees only have 1 layer.
Albert wanted to know if the bees would dismantle this frame of “broken” wax and rebuild the wax elsewhere in the hive on other frames.
We decided this would be a great experiment for the large beehive.
The purpose of this experiment is to give bees wax so they don’t have to waste their time and energy on making wax. This will be good for a smaller hive to build up quicker by letting the bees concentrate on making honey and taking care of their brood, instead of making wax.
This is a close up of the three broken layers.
This is how I dress 🙂 I’m so going to get stung one of these days.
What does a 4 year old do to keep busy?
Soaking himself!
I am getting brave. I touched a few bees!
Putting the experimental frame in the hive.
We will give if a few days and see what the bees do!
We love visiting Colorado. The temperature is 10′ cooler and it’s so green.
We stopped off at the Colorado Temple.
Eli had so much fun with Rin.
Gage taught him how to play video games. Again, I guess I have deprived my son….
We played with their cute puppy. Eli now wants another dog.
Too old for pictures.
They have a park across the street from their house. Eli thought it was the coolest thing to open the front door to a park!
He loved these springy things.
One day we ate lunch at Garbanzo. If you want a great tasting falafel, come here. I enjoyed my wrap. Next time I will skip the hummus. I like hummus, but it over powered the falafel. Excellent lunch.
I thought I had a picture of Court and the whole family hanging out on the couch. I can’t seem to find it. But it was enjoyable to be with Ferelyn and her family.
We always have to stop here for donuts.
These long john donuts are to Colorado as a warm croissant is to Paris. If you pass through you must experience one.
They are filled with white fluff, or we call it, icing. 🙂 So tasty. This is why I ran 13.1 miles! So I can eat one of these for breakfast EVERY morning.
Our last day we at breakfast at Snooze. I thought it was going to be another breakfast/ Ihop place…
This was most delicious breakfast I have had. They don’t have cooks in the back, they have chefs. Everything had great flavor. Even Eli’s pancake.
I ordered the Smashed Avocado Benny. When I run the race next year, we are coming back to this restaurant!
We always enjoy coming out for a visit. Thank you for letting us stay with you for a few days!
Since we drove all this way for the marathon, we decided to stay for a few days.
But first, I need to document our drive up. We drove the Wyoming route and stopped in Little America for clean bathrooms.
I’m always impressed when we pass through here. The door handle of the individual stalls in the bathroom.
Ceiling light in our bathroom stall 🙂 With crown molding. You don’t get this at a gas station bathroom.
Eli was so wonderful during this trip!
We saw a double rainbow.
We stopped off for ice cream.
We stopped off at the park.
Eli experienced his first kids meal. I know, I’m an awful parent to not let him experience this earlier. He has experienced “Kids” meals at our stores, be he said it’s not the same. 🙂
Our 8 hour drive took us 12 hours 🙂
We arrived safely and that’s all that matters.