![]() ![]() It came also from closely watched creeper frogs, spiders, coyotes, copperheads, owls, chickens, opossums, caterpillars, mites, termites, bobcats, bats, deer, flowers and trees, among other growing things. I had been gone a long time, so there was quite a pile to clear away before I could settle down to the work of the afternoon of my life, the work of building a new kind of order, a structure on which a 50-year-old woman can live her life alone, at peace with herself and the world around her."" Peace came not only from beekeeping for 10-to-12 hours daily for three of the four seasons. I cleared the desk and tended the messages that others had left. ![]() And then one day she jelled again: "".I set about doing all the things that one does when one returns from lunch. For the first three years after Paul left, Sue was ""out to lunch,"" unable to read anything but the lightest froth. He left her their farm, equipment and varied wildlife, including 200 beehives that (during the year described) produced 30,000 pounds of top-grade honey. After 30 years together, Sue and her husband Paul Hubbell divorced. ![]() Sparkling description of a year of beekeeping on a 100-acre farm in the Missouri Ozarks, an operation run by one woman alone. ![]()
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