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Look around your area, there should be a local guy near you. Check out farmers market next month as keepers will be bottling soon.

Yes, it is in Cape Girardeau by Sams and Kohls.

Academy Sports opened on Fri. locally here. First trip in was to buy a Heritage 10' sit on top and a Malone Yak Stacker 2. They are not stocked up fully yet, so I walked away with the Yak Stacker and some lures. Went to town last night for supper and decided on treating myself to a 50 year Bday present and walked out with a Lowrance Max 4 fishfinder and gps. I came home to install and realized that I did not get the one I wanted. Went back today and exchanged it for the one I was looking at, Max 4 DSI that went on sale for $30 less last night. Picked up an Ezset 10x10 canopy for about $44 while I was at it. This area has sucked for sporting goods. We have nice gun shops. We have a great fishing store that stocks what you need or can order BPS stuff. But,. for the niche, Academy seems to fill the bill. I wonder what the rest of the store has to offer. I have only seen a portion of it.

Academy Sports opened on Fri. locally here. First trip in was to buy a Heritage 10' sit on top and a Malone Yak Stacker 2. They are not stocked up fully yet, so I walked away with the Yak Stacker and some lures. Went to town last night for supper and decided on treating myself to a 50 year Bday present and walked out with a Lowrance Max 4 fishfinder and gps. I came home to install and realized that I did not get the one I wanted. Went back today and exchanged it for the one I was looking at, Max 4 DSI that went on sale for $30 less last night. Picked up an Ezset 10x10 canopy for about $44 while I was at it. This area has sucked for sporting goods. We have nice gun shops. We have a great fishing store that stocks what you need or can order BPS stuff. But,. for the niche, Academy seems to fill the bill. I wonder what the rest of the store has to offer. I have only seen a portion of it.

Last night we were watching a preview for a new show on Nick. White family moves into a house that it haunted by 3 ghosts. I said "look, 3 spooks" and was tongue lashed because they were 3 black persons portraying ghosts. And one of them seems to be a cross dresser and the homophobe came out in the conversation too.

Honey will be sold here locally when I get it. Trust me, you tell someone you have bees, the honey is the first thing they ask for. Honey production is alot of work. You pull the supers at the right time when they cap them. Then you have a short time to uncap it, spin it out of the comb, filter and bottle it, label it, then sell it. I am honestly looking at the other side of the business, production of bees. There is a good market for bees, queens, and other starter stuff. Bees are catching on and many new persons are getting info it.

One week later after splitting the hives, the queens have settled in and the new hives are doing well. The parent hives are no worse for the loss of bees either, the queens are busy making the replacements. Plenty of rain this summer, things are green and blooming. Bees should have a banner season this year unless it turns dry later.

I have only puttered in my new to me Tracker Pro 17 with a 35hp. I have not gotten to run it full throttle since the test drive at a private resort. All of the lakes I have had it in are 10 hp limits. Puttering the boat seems to load up the carb somewhat and may foul some. The 10 hp limit has always puzzled me, a boat running on plane does not create much wake. But a big boat puttering makes some waves. And a 9.9 on any boat running full throttle will put out more waves than a boat on full plane because a 9.9 will never really trim out. I know most lakes that have the limits are small ones that would be pretty dangerous running on plane if you did not know where the stumps lie. Some areas do it because the waves create erosion on levees or banks.

This little hobby may amount to an income in a few years. Honey sales. Queen bee production. Nuc sales. Looking to a retirement project.

Picked my first cucumbers today. One mountain fresh table tomato and several grape tomatoes. Corn is about waist high. Squash is starting to bloom. Plenty of moisture this year. Looking at a cool spell this weekend. Okra is foundering like last year. Beans are not doing much, growing slow. At least the rabbits are leaving them alone. They keep the lettuce bed mowed down short. It is in another part of the yard next to the house. I used to have fun with the ground hogs. They don't call them whistle pigs for nothing. Catch them out in a row, whistle and they stand up real pretty for a head shot.

This heat has the girls out on the front porch for some air the last few days. It is called bearding, a big wad of bees outside the hive. Normally they are inside maintaining the temps of the brood, fanning the honey to dry it out, or other duties. With the heat, they come out for some air as they are not needed for those duties. New queens are released and the new hives are coming along. 2 are strong, 2 may need some reinforcement this weekend. I will probably move a few more frames of brood into them to build their numbers.

Turning a motor on and off will surely create more noise, the jerky motion always pops the mounting of the motor. But I seldom troll with a trolling motor, I use it to get where I am going or position a boat for the drift. Then I use a wind or current to move the boat silently into fishing waters.

Pawn Shop? Looks like he lost his train of thought. Or thought this was craigslist.

I get to see them on Friday, one opens up here locally in Cape Girardeau. Never been to one, but have heard some good things. I would rather have a Gander, BPS, or Cabela's that close.

The mean breed of queens are still in the 2 original hives from this spring, somewhere. I hope I did not get one in the nucs as they will sting the store bought queen thru the cage and kill her. I actually worked them for the first time yesterday without a sting. Maybe I am getting better at handling them. No honey this year, I am making bees instead. I did have about 6 deep frames of honey drawn out and filled on the one hive. I dispersed it amongst the 4 new nucs to feed them. I have $360 in bees alone this year between the 2 nucs I bought back in the spring and the 4 queens I bought this week. I should have done the splitting back in early May, but I decided to try for a little honey. The original queens in the 2 new hives swarmed and took off with about half of the work force in each hive. Now they are built back up, I decided to split into more hives and forego a honey harvest this year. With 7 solid hives going into next spring, there should be some honey next year. I don't really have the time or facilities to mess with honey production now. I still have to build the honey house to store the extractor and equipment to bottle it. I still like to do a little fishing from time to time and the bees tend to cut into it. I have been outside all morning making some new hive equipment. Mother Nature dumped a flood on us yesterday and fishing waters were blown out.

Wouldn't that make you a coon a s? How did that term come about anyway?

Sweet ride.

That went about like I planned. I could not find the queens in the two hives. I split one hive into 3, and the other into 2 and used my 4 queens on the new splits. I now have 7 hives and plenty of bees and equipment to spare. Nothing like roasting in the heat of the day working a bunch of bees. At times they were attacking the veil to where it sounded like hail bouncing off of me. I tried nitrile gloves today and did not get stung once. It took about 2 hours to complete my job but my armor worked today.

Like all of the current Admin stances, I tend to be against all of the. They tend to be what is worst for the country in general.

And 2 spare speed loaders to boot. That man was prepared for anything. Never met him, but looks like a great guy. You have to admire the wheel gunners, they are a dying breed. I switched from speed loaders to loader strips a few years back, they are easier to carry concealed. But they are not as fast to reload.

I tend to glean my news from several RSS feeds from Reuters, Yahoo, Stltoday, and the local newspaper. The local TV is worthless. My weather comes from NWS.gov and Intellicast. We had a little conversation the other day coming back from the 11 Pt regarding the local TV. They will break in and state "Car wreck on Hwy 60, 2 killed. Details at 10." Now anyone that has anyone traveling on Hwy 60 gets worried that someone they know may have been killed and they have to wait till they break it at 10. Or they show up on the scene of something and start spouting off the report, but they don't have any details. I quit watching the news on a local station about 15 years ago. We were sitting at a little bar enjoying our late night meal watching the tube. There were several major international events taking place that really had an effect on the whole world and the lead story was about a kid that was too fat to make it too school all of the time. He had missed too many days that semester because he spent too much time shoving breakfast down his fat little face and the school decided he could not graduate because of his tardiness. It was a 10 minute tragedy that spilled out on the local station while the whole real world stories only got a blurb. May make a good Facebook story, but it was not newsworthy of a major media station.

Toss some vinegar on it, it cools and tans the burn. Unfortunately, I have had to use it from time to time on a burn. You smell like an ole douche, but it really helps and is something most people keep around the house.

Thanks for rubbin it in. I hope the mosquitoes are big as sparrows this year up there for ya....

Really, they are sitting in the back room tonight in a little ice cream pail. What you see here is the equivalent of a 100 dollar bill, $25 bucks a pop. Inside of each of the little cages is a ripe new laying queen. They are surrounded by the attendant bees which are passing food to the queens inside the cage. It is amazing how they stick to the queen cages, you can open the bucket and none of the bees try to fly or get out. In the morning, I will split my 3 hive into 6. 2 of the queen cages will replace the queens in 2 of my original hive and one generation from now I will have gentler bees in those. Part of the frames of bees in those hives will go into another 2 hives and a queen cage will be placed with them to make 2 new hives. The third original hive will be split in 2, and the bees will make their own queen in one of those hives. Looks like a fun day for me tomorrow. The cages keep the queen protected until the bees accept her in about 4 days. I will then go back in and pull the cork out of the end of the cage and release her to start laying. The new bees born will have her characteristics and the old mean bees will die out in several weeks. The 2 existing queens in the old hives will be caught and I will return them back to the fellow I purchased the queens from, he wants them. The hives I purchased this spring have been a stinging little bunch. Suckers nail me ever time I open them up. I want gentle bees, not a bunch of stingers.

I watched a group of 20 on the 11 Pt yesterday. Rods ranged from Snoopy poles to river catfish spinning rigs. They were fishing anything from white powerbait balls to 6 inch mister twisters. None of the line weights were under 8lb test. Big red and white bobbers on some of the rigs. None of them were fishing anything that would be considered normal by any angler on that stretch of water. But they were flailing the water and scaring the squirrels out of the trees. Somehow, they managed to catch a pickerel, and it was on a big yeller stringer.