I few months ago I quickly put together a new mold for a 10 foot allred Cedar Wheelbarrow Lapstrake Pram. My very close friend has just got thru some major surgery. He seemed alittle down. Years ago he and I would trout fish the high lakestogether. Those days were a good time! I let him…
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Free canoe with a very Big Hole!!
Last weekend a friend picked up a free fiberglass canoe! The owner was going to take it to the dump. So Henry hauled it away and brought it to me. Henry kept the few pieces of fiberglass that were broken away. The hole was about 4” wide by 10” long. A big hole!! The first…
Spinning Honey
Harvesting Honey!
Sailing
Sailing the seven seas with my friend Larry!
Honey Season
This past weekend harvesting honey!
Post-Catching a Swarm of Honey Bees
This day I was in my house with the front door open. I started hearing bees buzzing! The buzzing started to get louder and louder. I stepped outside and noticed the sky was filled with bees. One of my hives was in the process of swarming. They lit on a branch approx 10 feet high….
Catching a Swarm with a Vacuum Box
6-12-21 Yesterday late afternoon a huge bull swarm of honeybees lit way down deep inside a bush next to my driveway. To make sure I got all the bees and the single queen I had to use the vacuum box I built just for this type of thing, it sucks them right into a brood…
April and May are honey bee swarming months
The months of late April and May are honey bee swarming months. There’s a saying; if you catch a swarm in the month of May it’s worth a truck load of hay, if you catch one in June it’s worth a silver spoon and if you catch one in July there’s a good chance it…
A Triple Split
A few days ago I took a video of one of my wild hives that I split three ways. This last August I added a third brood chamber for the hive to pack away Fall honey to feed themselves over the winter. This spring there were maybe 75,000 bees filling all three big brood boxes….