Another satisfying week, for the first time since I’ve moved here over two months ago I’ve finally mowed all of the grass on my property. The grass on the West side gets covered in shade by the tree line leaving it to grow slower. The bees are also on the West side making it the first time I mowed around the bees. Since I didn’t want to get attacked while mowing I did my wellness check on the bees immediately before mowing in hopes they would still be pacified by the smoke. There were no bee attacked and they’re doing great, this was the first time I was able to see they’re making honey. I still can’t really find the queen since they built their own combs instead of building on the frames I can remove and I have zero experience spotting the queen. As long as everything looks fine, I’m happy. With mowing, I continued clearing areas in the woods. It had also been awhile since I mowed the previous paths and gave them a cut. A process the forest floor is going through is my first mow clears out brush and layers of dead leaves, this allows grass to begin growing. My second pass of freshly revealed forest puts the grass at a nice height creating a comfortable forest floor. There are still parts of the forest I’m revealing and I’m almost to the back edge, I was mapping out the path I will attempt to cut next time to do so. Then I will work on the Eastern edge of the forest which has trees growing over the neighbors fence, that’ll be a lot of chainsaw work before I can mow.
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