Enough on Martha!  I have been silent too long!  I would never have taken up beekeeping if I hadn't had the good fortune to meet someone who kept bees.  He let me help take honey from his one and only hive and that is what brought me to this place.  I wouldn't be surprised if the Martha Stewart Living episode some of you have been lambasting doesn't bring more people into the hobby.  

I doubt that Ulee's Gold had the same effect.   Am I to believe that because you keep bees as a livelihood  that you live in a shack, are lonely in love and have a wayward daughter?  None of that appeals to me.  There was nothing glamorous about that movie.  I would prefer that people think my hobby is "chic" than what was portrayed by Peter Fonda. 
 
As far as fine china and linens, Martha is providing instruction to women (and men) in the art of domestication.  An art that is sadly lacking in todays world.  

Sincerely,
B. Miller