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…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby Walking down the path to the river the other evening, I almost tripped over a big bull snake. Mottled brown and…
Read MoreBy: 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…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby That gal Marilyn said, “I have a lot of nice thrift store clothes, but we never go anywhere, so I never…
Read MoreA 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…
Read MoreTime Travel By: Ed Colby The road to my billionaire’s bees was buried in nearly a foot of snow, virgin but for a couple…
Read MoreOur Bobcat By: Ed Colby Up the road at the nudie hot springs, the mercury hovers in the ‘teens. Shafts of early morning sunlight…
Read MoreLessons of 2022 By: Ed Colby Oh, fun time!” my cheerful pharmacist laughed when I informed her of my impending colonoscopy. For those of…
Read MoreA Nice Way to Put It Ed Colby I only have to utter the magic words “climate change” in one of my columns, and…
Read MoreThe IRS By: Ed Colby At 6 o’clock this morning on our way fishing, Paul was all lit up. When he tried to pick…
Read MoreBy Ed Colby Meet Paul Limbach Just down the road from Colby Farm, I caught up with veteran Colorado beekeeper Paul Limbach at his…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby That Redheaded Tina That redheaded Tina rolled into Colby Farm late from Durango in her ’94 Volvo after she had to…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby Good Luck, Bad Luck. Despite a fire ban here in western Colorado, on July 3 some yahoos shooting illegal tracer rounds at…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby There’s A Time For Everything I used to dream that I was in college again, with finals approaching, and it would…
Read MoreGrand Slam By: Ed Colby Yesterday was a grand slam. First I got a massage from a chiropractor of rare talent. She trades her…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby Playing Hooky In January the gal Marilyn and I took the overnight Amtrak from Colorado to Reno for the 2018 American…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby One of Britain’s foremost conservationists, University of Sussex Professor Dave Goulson founded the Bumblebee Conservation Trust, a charity that promotes bumblebees….
Read MoreA Taste of Medicine by- Ed Colby Just when I started getting the Nosema under control in a handful of my weaker bee colonies,…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby On our way back from dropping off a load of bees on the Colorado Flat Tops, Frank remarked, “This is a…
Read MoreBy: Ed Colby Our Place In The Cosmos In the wee hours, I turned to my gal Marilyn. “Can’t sleep,” I confided. “I have…
Read MoreBy: 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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