Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

Lots of fog here. Even if there were mountains I couldn’t see them.

 

Beekeeping is awesome fun. Start planning this autumn. Find your local bee keeping club (should be easy to find up there, let me know if you have trouble) and start attending meetings, and get information about the spring classes.

The club can help you get your first "nuk" -- which comes with frames rather than just getting bees & a queen. The nuc is a headstart that pays dividends.

I recommend starting with two hives....you can compare one against the other which will help you notice when there's a problem.

I need to get my 'bee yard' empty to even think about it. Bees are really low maintenance, visit them a couple times a year and by the 2'nd year you'll enjoy your first harvest. There's noting like it.

 

I think I have the perfect place for it. Lots of bee food around as the previous owner planted flowers and such that attracts birds, bees and butterflies. I did that in Seattle and continue to do it here.

 

Love your yard and hay field, Tour, bees oughta too!

Took a class a few years back but never got started- our town has a limit on backyard hives- a minimum of acres we did not have. And some africanized honeybees that have moved into the area...dont wanna 'bee' that guy!

Nothing like raw honey when you are feeling a little run down.

 

They pretty much do well in most places. Ironically, inner cities. Except for the pesticides we use I know modern farming is reliant on it, but I do question what we're doing to ourselves.

Paris had a problem with collasping hives, they banned pesticides and the honeybee population responded very well, I believe coming back to 'normal' --- sadly corn and other grains are self pollinating, so the farmers don't seem to care about what round-up does to everyone else. I have some friends who grown corn and soy --- and their attitude is cavalier. "Everyone else is doing it, I have too to survive"

I can see their point, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Ironically, I started to love for bees right here --- in an old thread about seasoning cast iron with beeswax instead of oil To this day, I keep at least a partially used and one complete pound of beeswax in my kitchen cabinet. Every time I use my cast iron, after washing, I heat it up and give it a quick coat.

I used the beeswax bar and wiped it out with a lint-free towel. After a while, the towel gets so "full" of wax that you just have to wipe it down with the wax soaked towel. Periocially, refreshing with a quick pass of beeswax from the block...

One lb usually lasts a year or two at least. Best tip I've gotten on a camping forum anywhere....ironically, right here....

 

For a little while we thought we were seeing a Camp Inn in the wild we’d never seen & were wondering who it might be & where they were headed. Then we were remembered we are not the only Camp Inn owners in this city. So I texted the other folks and they have a new tow vehicle we didn’t know about it. So yep it was them.

We’ve seen their Camp Inn & we’ve seen two others that are local. We’ve only seen 4 others I believe. Ran into a couple from Santa Fe at the Hubble Trading Post in Arizona. A few days later we we were camped at Bryce and there was one near us for one night in 2016 on that same trip. The other two were both owned by Bear. He was switching from his first one to his second. We were camping at the camping spot at the factory in Necedah in 2022 when he was there.

 

I've only ever seen one other campinn in the 'wild' -- meaning on the highway. I've seen them at the Crossroads Gathering, and of course CICO -- but not much else. I suppose once at Brown County, there was a very old on there....

Whenever I see one, I get the same "excited" feeling—what friend have I yet to meet?!

 

Good morning. The sun is coming up almost due east this morning indicating fall is on its way.

2040F40F-F17E-4C22-8210-6EF49D5DE455 by Tour 931 posted Sep 4, 2024 at 4:57 AM

 

The one wee saw in Bryce we didn’t get to meet the owner. The day we got there, they were gone all day. Saw them drive in late figured we’d see them the next day. Being from the east coast, we were up really early & went for a sunrise hike. When we got back they had left.

Oh we were excited about seeing it. And even once we knew it was one we had already seen, we still excited.

 

Interesting how much commonality you can find just based on having the same camper

 

Good morning. I’m watching the weather news as I sip my first cup of coffee for the day. There is a frost warning for the next two nights.

 

My beloved Packers lost last night and I’m drowning my sorrows in my coffee this morning.

 

So much for the perfect So Cal weather that I always brag about. Temps in the 100s the last few days. Very unusual heat wave. Canceled our three day camping trip to El Capitan State Beach campground just north of Santa Barbara. Yes, we So Cal peeps are weather weenies for sure!

 

I commissioned my neighbor to paint a picture of my house. I took the picture the first winter I was in Wisconsin.

AE044DF3-0F4C-4373-8643-D8464C0B301E by Tour 931 posted Sep 8, 2024 at 4:57 PM

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3E51CBB0-76AB-4E87-B6D8-D824BB6F002C by Tour 931 posted Sep 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM

 

You have very talented neighbor!

 

She really is talented. She raised five kids and the last left home four years ago. With nothing else to do she pursued her dream of being an artist.