Lily got a beehive for Christmas from her grandparents and we spent the day after assembling it. We are fortunate to have had offers from several local bee experts to help begin our colony and teach us proper beekeeping. One potential challenge is that a couple years ago I was stung by a yellow jacket on the thumb and my hand blew up like a baseball bat. Two months later I was stung by another yellow jacket in the exact same spot. This time I got welts all over my body. I’ve been stung a bunch throughout my life with no issues but now I have to carry an epi pen with me everywhere. I guess we will see what happens with the new hive-venture. Honey here we come!

New year, new you. Why wear dead animal hide when you can wear a live animal? I’m coming for you 2026! Thanks to @growingbacktoeden for the regenerative organic ear wear.

I can’t believe how many people grocery shop on Christmas Eve - including Santa! We went after church and ran into him at the Publix bakery. Maybe no one left any cookies out for him - a sign of hard times or is it a healthier America? The older I get, the more I find myself slowing down through Christmas. The reason we were even grocery shopping on Christmas Eve is because that morning, I decided to relax in the sauna instead of racing off to do errands. What are we all rushing around for? Truly, what’s even crazier than talking about some old fat dude driving reindeer through the sky is saying that there is an actual God who intervened in this crazy drama we call life by coming to us in the flesh, born in a stinky barn so that through his message of radical love & faith, he could show us the way back home - and in death - tear the veil between Heaven & earth. Maybe we stay busy at Christmas because this message is almost too great to grasp. But it is the only message that really ...

https://open.substack.com/pub/rwmalonemd/p/homesteading-lessons-from-ancient?

More AI Warp Speed.

This will not end well for people, it's made to benefit billionaires.

States See a Federal Power Grab in Clash Over AI Data Centers
https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/states-see-a-federal-power-grab-in-clash-over-ai-data-centers/ar-AA1T6jaZ