Bull Snake in a Subaru
By: Ed Colby Walking down the path to the river the other evening, I almost tripped over a big bull snake. Mottled brown and…
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Bottom Board-A Pathetic Bee Beard
By: Ed Colby I’ve never been able to grow a beard, even a bee beard. And 10,000 honey bees dangling off your chin and…
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By: Ed Colby That gal Marilyn said, “I have a lot of nice thrift store clothes, but we never go anywhere, so I never…
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A Run of Bad Luck By: Ed Colby It’s mid-April as I write, and in my semi-retired beekeeper life, seemingly nothing is going according…
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Time Travel By: Ed Colby The road to my billionaire’s bees was buried in nearly a foot of snow, virgin but for a couple…
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Our Bobcat By: Ed Colby Up the road at the nudie hot springs, the mercury hovers in the ‘teens. Shafts of early morning sunlight…
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Lessons of 2022 By: Ed Colby Oh, fun time!” my cheerful pharmacist laughed when I informed her of my impending colonoscopy. For those of…
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A Nice Way to Put It Ed Colby I only have to utter the magic words “climate change” in one of my columns, and…
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By Ed Colby Meet Paul Limbach Just down the road from Colby Farm, I caught up with veteran Colorado beekeeper Paul Limbach at his…
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By: Ed Colby That Redheaded Tina That redheaded Tina rolled into Colby Farm late from Durango in her ’94 Volvo after she had to…
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By: Ed Colby Good Luck, Bad Luck. Despite a fire ban here in western Colorado, on July 3 some yahoos shooting illegal tracer rounds at…
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By: Ed Colby There’s A Time For Everything I used to dream that I was in college again, with finals approaching, and it would…
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Grand Slam By: Ed Colby Yesterday was a grand slam. First I got a massage from a chiropractor of rare talent. She trades her…
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By: Ed Colby Playing Hooky In January the gal Marilyn and I took the overnight Amtrak from Colorado to Reno for the 2018 American…
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By: Ed Colby One of Britain’s foremost conservationists, University of Sussex Professor Dave Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity that promotes bumblebees….
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A Taste of Medicine by- Ed Colby Just when I started getting the Nosema under control in a handful of my weaker bee colonies,…
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Adventures With U-Haul
By: Ed Colby On our way back from dropping off a load of bees on the Colorado Flat Tops, Frank remarked, “This is a…
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By: Ed Colby Our Place In The Cosmos In the wee hours, I turned to my gal Marilyn. “Can’t sleep,” I confided. “I have…
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By: Ed Colby Shortcuts. I’d never seen bees just pour out of a hive unless they were swarming. But on a warm late April…
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BOTTOM BOARD: Last Day On The Job
by Ed Colby My Aspen Mountain ski patrol boss Bud gave me my best job evaluation ever, maybe because this is…
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