Life in the Country

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With a few days off from work, we have been trying to get our self-sufficiency in order.

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Our eggs were disappearing, and then one day Livvi stuck her hand into a nest box to retrieve an egg and a very large snake was eating it.

It was time for a new coop anyway, so we turned over the old one and found not one but two big snakes living underneath it. At first they looked like Timber Rattlers, then Cottonmouths, but I think they were actually Rat Snakes.

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Here, Mike dispatches them in short order.

We took off the honey supers from the hive yesterday and ended up with about three gallons. Some of it was crystal clear Clover honey and some was darker Blackberry honey. Only got stung once.