106 degrees and invertase

It was 106 yesterday and near that again today.  In 1952 when Granny was married, it was even hotter to put summer temperatures in perspective.

 I have been watering some of our plants around the house but have let the yard go (it is now brown).  We put up a mister using a spray nozzle and graden hose for birds and bees.  It have worked pretty well.  It only sprays about .1 gallons a minute.   I turn in on in the mid-morning and turn it off at dark.  We have had a lot birds fly in for a drink and a few took bathes.

We are going to finish up the honey harvest on Monday and Tuesday ... it is suppose to cool down below 100 degrees.  I am still moving some field wildflowers (mints and butterfly weed) up to the garden ... not a good time for transplanting.

I have stopped bush-hogging in fear of starting a fire.

I have started working on some school projects I want to do next year ...

I am also working on a presentation I am doing at the next beekeepers meeting on July 9th ... "Bees and Biochemistry".  A general review of biochemistry then some specifics on sugars, enzymes (invertase and glucose oxidase), royalactin in royal honey and pheromones (many ... I will have to limit it to two or three).  I will be able to use some of this Keynote presentation in my biology class.