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Same by me, season should start April 15th!

Have you considered a couple of strands of heavy-duty electric fencing around the bees? Might be good insurance. Maybe a solar unit if the hives are too far away from any electric source. All it takes is one visit, one night from one of those critters and the whole deal can be ruined.

I went to retrieve my ladder that got buried under my elevated deer house stand that blew over. Thank goodness without me in it! And when I got there I kicked up at least 20 deer. Tails going everywhere! Then I caught site a a really big Tom strutting across my field. I videoed some of him and tried to get a few pictures. Then after pulling my ladder out and stacking some of the salvaged wood, I rode up into the woods to check the couple cameras I have. I’m actually there now. And the woods were booming with gobbling for about 45 minutes I’m up here. It’s the first spring in many years I have heard this here. I may actually get the bug to try his Spring.

I am not sure if it would still be good. I’ve never kept it longer than two weeks after pickling. I usually start on it, the day it’s made. It’s seems to peak in flavor, after about two days, and it tastes about the same for up to two weeks. I really like it and it rarely lasts over a week. Speaking of pickled heart and tongue, my wife didn’t get to mine yet. She was away over Valentine’s Day this year. I’m trying to coax her into making it for me over Easter. We still have two deer hearts in the freezer. Most years, she makes it on Valentine’s Day and we take it up to her parents in the Adirondacks the following weekend. They love the pickled heart and I save most of that for them, while I eat mostly the beef tongue (they don’t like that). The in-laws really missed it this year, so my wife sent her mom my grandmas recipe, and she just made some pickled beef heart up there. She said it turned out real good. Good news -my wife just told me to bring the hearts and up from the freezer and she will pickle them for me tomorrow. Thanks for the reminder. I couldn’t find any beef tongues in there, but there are still a couple of beef hearts in the freezer. If these two deer hearts turn out good, maybe I’ll get her to pickle the beef hearts for next time we go up to her parents, on Memorial Day weekend.

As a youngster, I used to love it when my grandmother made pickled cow tongue. It was almost impossible for me to wait the time frame recommended before you eat it. I guess it's a old timey type thing. And, other than on this site where people pickle heart, I don't know of anyone else who makes or eats pickled meats. They also used to sell lamb tongue in small jars in the supermarkets from time to time, and I loved them. You can't find the lamb tongue anywhere these days, not even online. My kids used to crack up laughing and get all silly yelling, "gross Dad" , as I teased them with a lamb tongue hanging out of my mouth. lol