Where does time go?

I can't believe how fast time flies by. Next weekend is the Memorial Day holiday. Jake is all done with his first year in college and Alix has finished her third. Mom and Daddy have been gone for 9 days now. And Amos is almost 3 months old.

We have a new family in our neighborhood - in our household to be exact. A pair of robins have built a nest on the edge of a porch pillar. It took them several fruitless days until we had rain and they could use mud to plaster the nest to the wall. I would have knocked it down before completion but it is too high up. So high up that I'm pretty sure they won't get any nestlings safely to the ground. I'll get a picture and post it later.

We did have some excitement a week ago. Jake discovered a football sized mass of honeybees clustered in one of our bushes about 3:00pm. It had just formed since lunch. We called our local "honey" man. He came and put out one section of a hive with some attractant in it. The next morning he came back and took the hive (with the new queen and most of her workers. He told us that what we had was a swarm of bees caused by a hive splitting into 2 hives. He was very encouraged to see a hive healthy enough to split. Since CCD (colony collapse disorder) started we have lost 1/3 of our honeybees. Improper use of pesticides is considered a major player in CCD.