• Automatic chicken waterer
• Microbusiness ebook
• Homemade deer deterrent
• Cosmic cookout
• Appalachian ecology

We're still feeding our honeybees, helping them sock away some extra honey to make it through the winter.  I've been giving them really strong sugar water (half sugar, half water) to make it easier for them to dehydrate the liquid into honey in the cool weather, but that seems to make the bees exceptionally thirsty.  At the same time, I poured out our kiddie pool of water since it's too late in the year to be soaking mushrooms.  The combination of factors sent the bees searching for other water sources, and we started finding drowned bees in every standing body of water around the farm.

Guilt-stricken, I set up a water feeder by filling a pie pan with marbles and then water.  The marbles give the bees a spot to land so that they don't drown when they come to drink, and the bees were suitably impressed.  No more drowned bees!

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comment 1

I love your bee waterer! Where did you get the marbles? Believe it or not after reading your blog I spent about an hour searching the internet trying to find similar marbles but no luck! Lots of marbles out there to be sure but I really like the size and clarity of the ones you have. In addition to being functional it looks very nice! =)

Comment by Ken — Saturday afternoon, March 20th, 2010

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I'm ashamed to say, we got them at Wal-mart. I think they were in the floral section, meant to be used in vases as a decorative element. I suspect that if you start looking online in flower arranging type areas, you might find some like them!

Comment by anna — at teatime on Saturday, March 20th, 2010

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comment 3

Nothing wrong with buying stuff from Wally World... I tend to buy things there if they're the exact same as I would buy elsewhere since they're usually cheaper. Thanks for the reply, I'll definitely check there the next time I go! =)

Comment by Ken — at teatime on Saturday, March 20th, 2010

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comment 4

Always glad to help! I hope they're still selling them --- I think they'd been sitting in our barn for a year or two.

Comment by anna — Saturday evening, March 20th, 2010

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