https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/sixty hives, one old man, and a daughter who types Kündölük 3.4.2enhttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2026/10/winter-house.html Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:15:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2026/10/winter-house.html Hives into the winter house today. Fifty. We closed the door at dusk. Tilek says that it is the first time he heard the hum with his own ears: he put his ear to the box and went quiet and said, "Ata, it sounds like a road." I said: yes. That is the road. @endhttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2026/08/the-last-harvest-maybe.html Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:30:00 +0600Honeyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2026/08/the-last-harvest-maybe.html Tilek and I. 50 hives. 23 kg a hive. Mountain flowers 38 som a kilo, sainfoin 30. This summer the buyers in Talas who always paid in dollars said they cannot get the dollars. So they pay in som, and the som is enough for a man who lives in the mountains. Gulmira apa, if you read this: I kept your…https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2025/08/the-grandson-works.html Sun, 24 Aug 2025 19:40:00 +0600Honeyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2025/08/the-grandson-works.html This year Tilek ran the extractor, I watched. 24 kg a hive. I did not touch a frame. It was strange, but he does it better than me. My hands tremble. He wants to build a second shed with a proper floor. I said, build it.https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2024/06/fifty-hives.html Sun, 02 Jun 2024 17:00:00 +0600Springhttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2024/06/fifty-hives.html The apiary in the spring meadow. Fifty boxes. After the winter: 50 hives. I lost nine. Age. My back. I decided to keep fifty and not buy new. Tilek is 21 and studies in Talas but comes on weekends. He says he will take the apiary when I cannot. I told him to learn first.https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2023/11/quiet.html Sat, 04 Nov 2023 19:20:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2023/11/quiet.html Everyone is careful this autumn. Nobody asks me about politics. They ask if there will be more honey next year.https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2023/08/heat.html Sun, 20 Aug 2023 18:00:00 +0600Honeyhttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2023/08/heat.html Bees bearding on the hive fronts in the heat. Forty degrees. The bees are bearding on the front of the hives to cool them. A good sign, I think. 21 kg a hive. We sold out by the fifteenth of September. The price this year: 31 som for sainfoin and 35 for flowers. I did not raise it for the…https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2022/07/forty-nine-years.html Sun, 24 Jul 2022 20:00:00 +0600Memoryhttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2022/07/forty-nine-years.html Forty-nine years yesterday. I went up as always. A young man was there with a camera from the university, to ask the old ones for their stories. I told him mine. It took an hour and he took notes and did not interrupt. That's all.https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2021/08/dry-year.html Sun, 08 Aug 2021 16:40:00 +0600Flowershttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2021/08/dry-year.html A very dry year. The mountain flowers burned in July, there was little nectar. 9 kg a hive. We will sell less and keep the best for ourselves. The price will go up. I am sorry. The bees did not complain. They never do. They simply leave.https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2020/04/quarantine-honey.html Sun, 26 Apr 2020 19:30:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2020/04/quarantine-honey.html No bazaar, no bus, no one comes to the yard. I stand at the gate with my mask and the buyer stands two meters away and I put the jar on a stone. Tilek makes the deliveries by bicycle to the houses along the road and writes down the numbers. The old people say honey is a medicine. In this year…https://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2019/04/tulpar.html Sun, 14 Apr 2019 21:00:00 +0600Noteshttps://blog.attelkom.net/baldar/2019/04/tulpar.html Tilek put the Tulpar on my phone (I have a phone since last year). Now he has made me a channel called "Mamat's honey". It has 80 followers, mostly Gulmira's customers and Gulnaz's friends in the hospital. I do not understand how it works. People write "how much?" and I answer with a photograph of…