Posted on 02/10/2017 2:10:25 PM PST by greeneyes
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Once the bee fills up on nectar (or gatorade), it makes a "bee line" to the hive.
A bee, heavily ladened, will fly much slower, but in a direct line back to the hive; the only variable is the height of the nest in a tree.
You can return later with a ladder
Agreed ! Marriage is a "sacred trust"
I was just suggesting how to do it 'on the cheap'
Some of the smaller and more obscure melons might work as well; the green-and-smooth types tend to blend in with the leaves and be hard to spot.
Trouble is, I can’t make the same beeline the bee can. It’s semi-rough terrain, covered with cedar and scrub oak. We’re on a ridge overlooking the lake and even a heavy laden bee is faster than me going down the hill and winding thru brush and boulders :)
What I’ve been attempting is to get a couple of particularly agile grandkids to chase the bees and mark the nest :) Apparantly they just don’t love the raw honey as much as Granny. But one grandson is working on it for me on his visits. Ryan loves Granny’s pies and he’s willingly bee hunting for me on his rare visits, God love him, i miss him and am waiting for another visit ;)
Nice! - what is that tree to the right? Is it a bald cypress?
I was looking at my Granny’s bible the other day, and noticed that I had ancestors who came to Missouri from Kentucky. Just think, if they had stayed put, I might be getting ready to put stuff out too.
I won’t be doing much till April 1. That’s when the potatoes get planted.
It is a second growth Redwood tree. After a old growth redwood is harvested many new sprouts come up from the root. There are thousands of acres of these trees from SF north into Oregon...
Neat! Have never seen one before.
Nice pics. Thanks for sharing.
We loaded seven 13' oak logs Friday afternoon. Saturday morning my truck blew a brake line while I was getting ready to head to the sawmill. Lucky, lucky, lucky it happened in the driveway and not on the road. So we took the load that was hooked to Pops' truck, unloaded it, dropped the trailer and came back for the 2nd load. Back to the sawmill and went to work making boards.
The mill belongs to my old buddy Mikey. We've been friends since we were kids. Here he is making little ones out of a big one.
I brought one trailer home Saturday after we'd had all the fun we could stand and went back for the other trailer Sunday morning. Got home and went to work installing kickboards in the new mini barn. I'm quite pleased with the way it turned out. Should be darn near indestructible. Leah's horse was supposed to arrive yesterday, but bad weather in Colorado delayed that until this morning.
This is what I have left. The bay it's stacked in is 15'x15'. The widest boards are 15". Very heavy. I've got four 6"x6" posts in another stack, two logs at Mikey's, and another 10 or so that I need to load up and haul over there. I'll have plenty of lumber to rebuild all of the stalls in the big barn and some left to make furniture or something. I saved back one of the big outer slabs to build a couple park benches.
Now that I've got that project out of the way I can finally start to get ready for some gardening. The ground is plenty dry to work now, but it's really too early to plant anything. This week I'll till in the manure I applied last fall and have that out of the way. It won't need to be tilled again before planting. When the time comes I can just chunk some seeds in the ground and then watch em grow.
Around here it's "Don't put a $100 tree in a $10 hole."
I can't remember the last time I saw a $5 tree.
Mother Nature’s roller coaster ride with the temperatures continues. So one one of those nice spring days, I sowed lettuce and arugula seeds. Watered well and covered up all the garden pots. Pansies bloom profusely and daffies coming up with nice buds forming.
Thanks for the Pics. Nice set up that’s for sure. We had a brake line fail once. We had just turned a corner and were coming down the hill, pulled over to park behind a pickup, and Hubby stepped on the brake.
Hubby only had time to say no brakes, before we hit the pickup. It was a Volkswagon convertible. Turns out the brake line ran directly under the seat, and had just been cut in two by the repetitive motion.
Nice going.
Really enjoy your photos and commentary . Portable sawmills are popular here in the redwoods but the second growth is only good for fence boards or rustic siding on out buildings. We also have good Doug Fir, Spruce, Red Alder and a couple of others.
I will have a formal garden at my next home; my current lot is not suited to a formal space.
You should get a book “Creating Small Formal Gardens” by Roy Strong. Not in print anymore, but Amazon still has ‘em.
I bet after reading it, you’d want at least some of your space to be formal.
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