Photo Barf of the Baby!

It's been awhile since I've gone through my photos and cleaned them up.  By doing that, I realize they are 99% of my kid.  The other 1% are pretty random.  With that said, there was a lot of firsts for the little guy.  First fishing trip, first boat ride, first camping trip, first visit to Yosemite, first road trip....Geez and this doesn't even include his developmental progress.   Finding his hands, lifting his head, tummy time, etc.  Now he's trying to figure out to laugh.  It's pretty neat watching the development happen.  It serves as a constant reminder that time is flying.

I've kept the photo barf at a minimum.  As always, if you want to see more photos....check out my flickr site...http://www.flickr.com/photos/cragbetty/collections/72157633626980199/


week 6:

First Fishing Trip

that's my hand!!!

week7:

fishing on Independence Lake

I prefer my hand

Week 8:

Tummy Tme!

Month 2:

somewhere in the sierras

first camping trip!

hanging with dada in el cap meadows

gonna climb that one day!

my saucer....like it?

mama and me

Month 3...so far....

how you doin'?

Outpost Honey

So many thing to talk about and so little time.  First of all, we sold our nuc hive within a day.  That means Anastasia is off to a new home.  Secondly, we've got us some honey.  While Ed's mom and sister were here visiting, they did the first extraction of honey.  From that we got roughly 15 quarts.  Then a week later Ed did another extraction on his own and we got more quarts.  Total honey haul....93 lbs or 31 quarts.  And thus, Outpost Honey is born.

First extraction 6/29/2013

Second extraction 7/2/2013

Outpost Honey

Time to cook everything with honey!

Catching Up and New Additions

It seems to me that i’m always catching up to this blogging thing.  That and dealing with my photos.  Sigh.  Now that I have some time, you would think I would just do it, but NOOOO….I’d rather be surfing the web for recipes, baking cookies, and then eating them.

But there are major updates to life.  The first one….(and the most life changing one...)

We are PARENTS!  Really.  We got a young mind to shape (or traumatize, which ever way the wind blows).

Our son, Andrew Lixing Kolodziej, was born on April 16, 2013 at 3:05pm in Renown Medical Center, Reno NV.  He only lived in Reno for a couple of days before he moved to the Golden State.  :)  Crazy, eh?  So crazy, that this is the first time/chance I got to clean up the photos, post them, and then write something about them.   So here's the photo barf...and this is only a little bit of the photos. For more, you can go check it out at my flickr site...http://www.flickr.com/photos/cragbetty/collections/72157633626980199/

Photos:
Week 0

Week 1:

Week 2:

Week 3:

Week 4:

Week 5:

So far it’s been a real adventure.  From the worry of jaundice to getting peed on to the first bath due to a blowout to a couple of sleepless night, it’s been a real learning experience.  Now that Andrew is a month old and 1 week old, we're looking forward to the milestones that he'll be reaching and maybe the solution to some quantum physics theorem.  For now the milestone is his cutie pie smile.  :)

Queens and Swarms

It seems like this is the year that our family of people and bees both grew!  A few days after bring our little Andrew back from the hospital (to be yakked about in another post), our hive (which survived the winter and has been thriving in the early pollen flow) decided that it was too crowded and swarmed.  That pretty much means that Ursula got unceremoniously booted from her throne.  Not to worry, she left with half the bees.  The worrisome part was that they left.  Good thing Ursula wasn’t a really good flier so they ended up on the walking path between our two gardens.  Ed came home one afternoon and saw that there wasn’t a whole lot of activity in the hive.  He took Andrew out for a walk around the garden and saw a big arse pile of bees on the path.

Needless to say, he caught the swarm (basically got Ursala, dumped her in our extra box, and got the colony to follow her).  Now we have two hives.  The daughter hive (the one with Ursala) is doing well.  The parent hive (with the new young queen - Tatiana) has yet to be proven.  However as of yesterday (5/19) Ed said he spotted some eggs.  So, the Tatiana got herself laid and is ready to populate the parent hive.  Throughout this ordeal, we ended getting a new queen (Anastasia), operating under the assumption that the parent hive might be queen less.  This is before Ed spotted brood in the parent hive.  Now we have an extra queen and are building a nucleus box for her.  Eventually, we’ll sell her and her nuc.  We’ll see.  :)

With the hive swarming, we have a lot of pollen and honey that has yet been used.  What’s neat about that is that we can probably take a few of the fully loaded honey frames and extract that.  Ed took one frame and hand extracted the comb and honey.    Half the honey hasn’t been capped so it’s pretty young honey.  Regardless, It’s pretty effing tasty. I can’t wait to taste what the capped honey taste like.

Once the honey flow starts for us….get ready for the Crack Granola production.  :)

the Swarm

First Honey

How Late Is It too Late To Tell Folks?

Maybe when the kid is here.  :)  Okay, okay...maybe with 10ish days left til the due date,  it's a little late.  I definitely don't want to be one of those parents that overshare about their kids on the interweb.  That's just not me.  Maybe the baby photos that I'll get Sara to take.  :)  (Hint hint Sara!)

I'll share just enough....unless my future kids decides that he doesn't want to be potty trained and smears poop all over the wall.  I'll have to tell that story.  :)  But with that said, who knows if I'll actually have the time to do that.

One of these days, I'll have photos posted...

Crisp Winter's Day = Tahoe Blue

Ed's Parent came an visited us during the MLK weekend in Jan.  No snow storms to write home about but it was the typical winter in the west.  Sunshine and chilly temps.  Something that both Ed and I have never done is get on one of the paddle board boats and take cruise on the lake.  By lake..I mean Tahoe.  So we spent a day driving around Lake Tahoe and then taking the cruise.

The cruise had an extra element added....the thrill of breaking ice.  Much quieter than the previous times I've experienced.  :D  It was the perfect showcase of why to keep Tahoe blue.

Of course...this is no excuse for me being lazy about the photos...

Tea House from above

MS Dixie II

Glassy Lake

Blue

the kolodziejs

reflections

at the entrance of emerald bay

Breaking ice

Pack Ice

Ice

beyond the ice....glass

Tea House at water level.

Fall/Winter-ish Rock (and little bit of a photo barf).

Man, I'm terrible at this blogging thing.  You would think that now that I work form home and on the computer, I'd actually gather up the motivation to process photos and post them.  Nope.  I'm still pretty bad.  the posting come in spurts and the photos come in the form of photo barfs.  So with that, I'll try to keep the barfing to a minimum....but no guarantees!


Sometime in the fall, we did some "backcountry" bouldering. ....



And then there is always the high desert...



Prugatory...

Amy

Ed

Evan

Evan