I am always amazed and awed at the roses from our yard. We don’t really do anything special, they just are there. I love them. This one is from a couple of years ago.
It is a yellowy-pinky-peachy rose for the Friday Photo.
Archive for October, 2018
Can’t Help But Love It
Posted by terrepruitt on October 5, 2018
Posted in Friday Photo | Tagged: Friday Photo, peach rose, pink rose, yard rose | 2 Comments »
Some Buzz About Bees
Posted by terrepruitt on October 3, 2018
I recently received a gift of honey. Not honey honey, but honey spread. The box sported many bee facts and I didn’t want them to go to waste so I thought I would share. According to the Bumbleberry Farms Honey Cream Spread box:
Questions and answers:
—How fast does a bee fly?
——————————-About 15 miles per hour
—How many flowers does a honeybee visit during one collection trip?
——————————-A worker bee visits about 50-100 flowers during each trip
—How far does a hive of bees fly to bring you one pound of honey?
——————————-More than 55,000 miles
—How much honey does the average worker honeybee make in her lifetime?
——————————-About 1/12 of a teaspoon
—How many wings does a honeybee have?
——————————-Each honeybee has 4 wings
—How much honey would it take to fuel a bee’s flight around the world?
——————————-About one ounce, or 2 tablespoons
—How many sides does each honeycomb cell have?
——————————-Each cell is a six-sided hexagon
—What is mead?
——————————-Mead is wine made from honey
—Which state is known as the Beehive State?
——————————-Utah
—How many honey-producing colonies of bees are there in the United States?
——————————-The USDA estimates that there are about 2.68 million honey-producing colonies in the United States.
—What does “super” mean to a beekeeper?
——————————-Supers are the hive boxes in which honey is stored, usually places above the deeper box called the “hive body”, where brood (developing bees) is reared.
—How do honeybees communicate with one another?
——————————-They communicate by dancing. Honeybees do a dance which alerts the other bees where nectar and pollen are located. The dance explains direction and distance. Bees also communicate with pheromones, a unique odor common to the particular beehive.
Just laying out the facts:
—The keeping of bees is known as Apiculture
—An apiary is where several bee colonies, or hives, are kept in one place
—There are over 200,000 beekeepers in the United States
—Honey is the only food that won’t spoil
—1 in 3 bites of food is pollinated by an insect.
—Honeybee mating takes place in flight, account for the drone’s need for better vision
—A male bee or drone has eyes twice the size of a worker or queen bee
—A healthy queen can lay up to 30,000 eggs a day
—A queen lays her own weight in eggs every couple of hours
—Contrary to what the name implies, a queen does not actually control a hive, and her sole job is to be an egg-laying machine
Wow! Did you know that? So interesting. Bees are pretty amazing. Do you know any bee facts you would like to share?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: apiary, Apiculture, bee colonies, bee facts, bee queen, Bumbleberry Farms, honey spread | 2 Comments »
Polished Fluorite
Posted by terrepruitt on October 1, 2018
I order a lot of stuff from Amazon. Most of the time it goes pretty well, but sometimes it does not. But I try to pay attention and only order certain things (like clothes) that have free returns. Well, sometimes when they ship the wrong thing is really doesn’t matter if the return was stated as free because when they send you the wrong thing it is up to them/the seller to fix it. A couple of months ago I ordered a stone and they shipped the wrong one. At first when I opened the package I was very disappointed because it was not the color that I was hoping for. When you order things like natural stones they warn you that the color will not be what you see in the picture, but what I received was way off. It took me a moment to realize that this was not the stone I ordered. I didn’t order another one right away. But I finally did and now I have some fluorite.
According to Wiki:
“Fluorite comes in a wide range of colors and has consequently been dubbed “the most colorful mineral in the world”. Every color of the rainbow in various shades are represented by fluorite samples, along with white, black, and clear crystals. The most common colors are purple, blue, green, yellow, or colorless. Less common are pink, red, white, brown, and black. Color zoning or banding is commonly present. The color of the fluorite is determined by factors including impurities, exposure to radiation, and the absence or voids of the color centers.”
I am used to the multi-colored polished stones. With light hues of pink-purple, green-blue, pinks, purples, greens, and blues in it. I have seen some dark ones, but I have not gotten one. The ones I got were light.
Wiki also states that fluorite is a source of a common chemical used to make a number of things, that is has ornamental uses, and even optical uses.
If you believe in the healing properties of crystals and stones then fluorite can help clear your mind. It can help get rid of negativity. It helps clear the way to joy. It helps bring order to chaos. It helps you focus. It can be used when you need to concentrate or get rid of a mental block. For some, this clearing of the mind can help with relaxation. Help with relaxation might translate into help in sleeping. Fluorite is often used to promote the positive energy while removing the negative energies. It is thought to help relieve the electromagnetic stress we are under every day with the use of everything electronic.
Do you have a stone/crystal collection? Do you have fluorite in you stone/crystal collection?
Posted in Misc | Tagged: Amazon, energy cleansing stone, fluorite, healing properties, Healing stones, polished stones, pretty stone | 8 Comments »
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