Albeit very windy, Sunday was a good day to be outdoors. It may be the last of our really warm days. It's snowing (flurries) this Monday morning! What a difference a day makes.

Anyway, I took advantage of the nice weather and spent much of the day in the woods (out of the wind). I hiked around and cut a load of firewood. My daughter and grandson helped me, as they were there while Nate was working on their barns (being constructed).

The tree I was cutting on was a former "widow maker"--dead, but caught up in another tree. It finally fell this past summer. Honeybees had made it a home, and honey was leaking out on the ground. It tasted delicious! We told a bee keeper about it, but by the time he got around to checking it out, they abandoned the hive.

When I cut the tree (hickory) up, it was quite hollow inside, and filled with dried up honeycombs. It was a huge colony! I felt bad for the bees that had to "jump ship". Hopefully, they found a new home somewhere nearby. Feral bees are very rare. (My SIL has bee hives for his vegetable farm.)

By the way, all this wood I'm cutting now is for winter 2013-14. I like to be a year ahead, just in case I become unable to cut it for some unknown reason(s). The golf course is going to cut down about 30 trees this winter, and I can have them! I'll be two years ahead then!

Have a good week, you'all.