My attitude toward insects has changed since I got the bees.

Time for me to turn in.

Gnite everyone.

You won’t be surprised to learn that some U.S. PhRMA corp is in N. Zealand “developing” a “special” kind of bee that they can patent & then it will be the only bee products that the USG will allow for medical purposes.

Glad to hear your local hospital hasn’t fallen into the trap yet.

Think about it from the bee’s POV. :-(

At least you weren’t allergic.

I always wondered what bumble bees had to do with tuna fish.

Picking up some bee Americana tonight!

That’s great. Didn’t know about that one.

Didn’t know Raid worked on hoomans. :-)

Honey bees are semitame, depending. I was able to pick a couple up & drop them outside as they seemed confused about the open window with air blowing in. We try not to kill any of them, even though the hives have no shortage. And no nasty chemicals anymore.

Thanks! Been years since I listened. Forgot that piece of music existed.

My gal is a perfectionist. After her first thorough cleaning of neighbor’s house, she’ll keep up with the kind of stuff you mention, and is efficient at it.

Yes, I watch him carefully, but I’ll never get to the point where I feel comfortable delving into the hive. Furthermore, one hive has small hive beetle, a new development since last week when we added a super. He’ll come back earlier tomorrow & has to go down into the lower boxes to look for the pest & decide what to do. How long he’s here depends on what need to be done. Hour is typical visit if routine.

My first swarm, the first year I had hives.

6 bees inside the house yesterday. Never happened before. Bee guy said they were scouts looking for a new home for the forthcoming swarm. I gently shoed them out the window. I don’t share the house with anyone.

Heh. I sent my cleaning person to my neighbors. Theirs keeled over in her early 50s; unclean living.

Neighbors seemed disappointed with efficiency of my person, but I explained that she told me she cleaned in places they didn’t know they had. Two dogs & one cat in house. You can imagine he fur!

Furniture arrangement makes a huge diff.

I don’t do bees. I have a bee guy and a neighbor who helps too. She knows a fair amount but he is an expert.

He didn’t come in response to my calls until around 5:30p.

I cleaned back porch & its furniture, which is my summer living room. Furniture is teak and heavy so moving it around is not trivial.

I was thinking about that as I worked on it. It was unconsciously expensive when I bought it, but Adirondack chairs are 25 years old & “new” chairs are a decade old. Grayed out, but still as sturdy as ever, so expense was amortized.

Hi Suzanne.

Another middle of the night sleep shift break.

I wish I has the photo online, but I don’t do digital pics. My bee guy has it & will email it to me in due course.

TENS of thousands of bees on the outside of one of my hives, layers thick. Completely covered front of hive, brood box & 2 supers (boxes put on top of bottom deeper brood box; used for brood and storage of honey & pollen), around sides of structure too. Chris (bee guy) thinks they haven’t swarmed yet because old queen, who leaves with swarm, hasn’t lost enough weight to fly yet. Quite a sight. Called “bearding.”

Did your cold front move in?

We had 80s today and is 73 now, at 1am. Wed & Thurs hot, but back to 60s on Friday.

Making BBQ on Sunday. 16 eaters (ages 32-80) + one teen who eats only cinnamon swirl bread with cream cheese and a few fruits, + 2 little types. Serving chipolte chicken wings, venison & bee steaks. Purple & white potato salad, tossed green salad, corn on cob.

This is one of the threads the Rs are trying to use to impeach O.

I think I remember reading when the IRS think hit the headlines, that the (acting?) IRS commish when it occurred was a stay-behind (think Gladio) from the W admin. Don’t remember where I picked up that tidbit, but keep it in mind for additional evidence.

Benghazi is part of the same plot.

There’s a third element, which escapes me for the moment.

Time for my second sleep shift.

Gnite all, sleep well.

I also make beet vichyssoise and used to make beet potato salad. This year I found purple potatoes at supermarket & decided to go that route.