Honey

We use local honey - it is delicious - and it is good for us. Using local honey is a great help for allergies. Honey contains bits and pieces of pollen, and as an immune system booster, it is quite powerful. Instead of needing a series of allergy immunity shots - you can just use a spoonful of honey in your tea, some honey on your toast - or however you like to use honey. In honey the allergens are delivered in small, manageable doses - and the taste is wonderful - a great bonus.

Use honey that was raised the closest to where you live. Buying honey in the regular grocery store can be good if you live near where it was produced - but it is likely that commercial honey is gathered from many locations and mixed together in huge vats.

Out in the country, near where we live, is the Honey Shack. They have their own bees and collect honey from local areas. You can get blackberry, wild flower, fireweed, snowberry and a lot of other "flavors". Each one is a little different - and all are delicious.

The front door . . .

Step inside - there are jars and jars of honey - pens for writing checks - a little slot for dropping in your money.

There are fun little honey gadgets along the rafters . . .

And this GREAT BIG BEE sitting up in the corner . . .

This guy sits out in the yard - usually he holds a jar of honey but with this cold weather it must be too cold for the honey to be outdoors.

We love honey on biscuits . . .

My honey lives in a Honey Bear - he's lost his label but he still does a good job.

Honey on pancakes is delicious . . .

Sometimes we put honey on our pancakes with peanut butter - yummmma

Oh we love pancakes - Swedish pancakes (although they are served at the Norwegian pancake breakfast - so maybe they are Norwegian pancakes).

And we love potato pancakes - oh wait - this is about honey - got a little sidetracked with the pancakes.

Honey in a cup of tea - ahhh perfection . . .

So that was our honey trip. Two weeks ago we tried to get some honey - drove almost all the way there in the sunshine - and then - - - it started snowing. We had seen the dark clouds gathering and thought it must be snowing someplace - but we didn't think it would snow on us.

By the time we were three miles from the Honey Shack it was snowing so hard that we couldn't see beyond the hood of the car. We found a place to turn around - and got out of there.

By the time we got back to the main road the sun was out again and it remained sunny the rest of the day. They got over 4 inches of snow near the Honey Shack - and we got no snow. Strange weather - but at least this week we got some honey.

Now for a cup of White Tea - with honey, of course. What is your favorite way to serve tea? Do you have a favorite teapot, or a favorite cup?