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Just standard Langstroth hive plans. Not really making anything out of the norm as far as design. I have been playing with bottom boards and top cover ideas. I have built one complete NUC to start a hive next spring or catch a swarm with. Here is a good site with plans. http://www.beesource.com/build-it-yourself/5-frame-nucleus-beehives/

The sun kept going behind a cloud and I could not get the shutter speed I was wanting. I did get a few good pics of them coming in loaded with pollen and the sun hitting them.

I have seen it happen on the upper Current River in Oct. Hard to believe it is that time of the year again already.

I was killing some time today after the sun popped out with the camera at the hive. I was taking some shots and playing with shutter speeds trying to stop wing beats of the bees when a Daddy Long Legs showed up poking around the hive. It has been an attractant for them all summer, I assume they are there for the ants. But this one decided to check out the upper entrance and got too close. A guard came out to challenge, and DLL did no back off. The bee jumped on and drug him off, sending him flying to the ground.

I really thought this was going to be more info on the bust of the cheater at Rose Holland last weekend.

Clouds and fog burned off around noon and we warmed up into the upper 70's with some sunshine. The girls are taking advantage of the nice weather and are packing it in for the winter. Lots of pollen. I pulled out the Pentax and took some photos. This might be the last time I open the hive and check in on them. Don't need to bother them if the temps are in the 60's, they get a little grumpy. Today things looked good. Still quite a bit of capped brood and young ones, most frames filled with raw honey and pollen. Many more bees inside than I had at the end of the dry spell in late Aug. They are alot more vigorous too. None of the pests that I had to deal with in the first month. Last weekend I went out and bought a table saw and some cordless tools. I build a Nuc Box which is a smaller 5 frame hive to start a new batch this spring. I have also picked up some cedar boards and am going to make a cedar hive for the spring. Just something nicer than a white box sitting out in the yard. Later this winter, we are having some logs sawed and will make a few boxes out of catalpa and maybe a walnut one. Going to seal the boxes with clear satin polyurethane and keep the natural wood. Next summer I hope to build up to 5 hives total.

Great game last night. Took the wind out of the crowd in the last few innings.

There is no set law on how long a leader needs to be. If you feel the leader is too long, then it probably is. When I fish with nymphs, I tend to use a shorter braided leader of my own design with a longer tippet section. I fish nymphs with an indicator so there will not be any pretty casts. When I fish dry to trout, I use a longer tapered leader with a shorter tippet section, again, balanced to the size of the fly to get it to cast well. When I fish for warmwater fish, I tend to use mono leaders, usually 7.5 feet.

If you have a rack, the foam blocks work fine. If you don't and have to put the blocks on the paint, expect paint to get scuffed. If you have a rack, any j type mount that attaches to factory rack works better.

Yep. But finding detail on this one is been pretty hard.

I think your story there is about a business that is going to have to do away with the company health care because of Obama's Obamacare raising the cost of it doing business. Romney intends to repeal Obamacare and replace with a better system of his own. Fiscal responsibility will offend many people. The 47 percent that do not pay any tax suddenly having to pull their own weight in society will be a big shocker if that ever happens.

Justin, that was what was getting me on the searches. I know there are several varieties of them but could not find the edible qualities alongside a pic of the mushroom. The one in the pic was not one I collected, but was one of a friend of a friend who collected it this morning. It was 10 times larger than the ones I found at the farm. I can always wait till that guy gets back with his "gut" feeling on the matter. The woods are full of mushrooms this fall, but positive ID is hard on most.

I started with the local person who is in the House of Rep. and the Senate. Joann has been pushing for more access in all areas in her district for several years. Senator was a lost cause, just a cloned response and invite to her fundraisers till I spam blocked her. The internet push started with the sale of the analog TV wavelengths. Most were bought up by the big players and killed any interest in that. Then some local startups fought for the stimulus monies and came out with broadband internet with wireless modems and 4g LTE signals which ended up mirroring the coverage that the big boys have. The next rollout of towers are supposed to give me a signal in my area. I just have to wait another year.

Big Spring in Van Buren? If so, that stretch is closed to boat traffic.

I was thinking paw paw too, but I really don't see many of them anymore. It has been a few years since I have seen any fruit. Something has changed and there are not many of them here in SEMo anymore. Buckeye is pretty common, this time of year they will sometimes have small tan pods that contain the buckeye seed. In MO they don't really seem to get very big and they are an understory tree also. In spring they will have red flowers on them.

Leaders come in many styles and sizes based on what you are fishing and what you are fishing for. The term "turning over" has to do with how a dry fly lands on the water, preferably wings up. Nymphs and streamers do not matter. A leader tapers the line down in size from the casting line to the terminal tippet, making a smoother cast. It also serves to get the fly away from the highly visible fly line. Longer tippets for shy fish in big water, shorter for nymphs. You can even buy sinking leaders to get streamers and other underwater flies down faster. I use tapered mono leaders and braided leaders in the 7.5 ft range for the most part. Heavier X sizes for bigger flies, smaller X sizes for the small flies. With any leader, I use a tippet section. Tippet sections are the disposable part of the line system that gets shorter as you change flies. It is cheaper than leaders and keeps you from trimming them down. Tapered leaders are a length of mono drawn down from one thickness to a smaller thickness. They are smooth and do not catch moss. Knotted leaders are various lengths of mono of various thickness tied with knots from thick to thin. The knots catch moss, but you can get varied performance from them by tweaking the lengths of the different sections. Braided leaders or furled leaders are woven lengths of mono that usually taper like the others. The weave seems to take some of the shock of playing and hooking a fish. They don't have a problem with moss.

http://wireless.fcc.gov/outreach/index.htm?job=broadband_home And it is funded thru the USDA. Unfortunately, 3 years later every attempt to make it accessible to me has failed. I have fiber optic within a few miles. Cell and wireless signals stop on the other side of the road from me. I don't even want to try satellite again. I can see a major town from where I live. It is not like it is a remote area.

That info is a little fuzzy. There are no links to a pic of one. And it looks like a pink one may be poison. They are a pretty common mushroom. I assume you prepare like a morel?

I really don't need any laxative. I had always heard they were eatable, but for the life of me I could not find any info on them. You google eatable mushroom, you get morels, chanterille, oysters, and buttons.

Rural Internet Service started under Bush. It was stepped up with the Stimulus Plan.

That was what I was thinking too. I use it and never notice any ads. But, clickthrus are a way Phil pays the bills, so I don't broadcast that tech trick.

Most falls are wet weather ones. Pickle Springs Natural has some small ones.

I found a bunch of these Sunday at the farm. I dropped a nice little gray squirrel in a patch of them. Having trouble finding anything about them, I misplaced or loaned my mushroom book out. Looks like some sort of coral mushroom.

Take a dozer and make a big ugly 20ft berm down your property line between the 2 of you. Problem solved and you will be safer. When my neighbor started shooting a MP5 across my land in a subdivision with one acre lots, I contacted his supervisor, an old friend, and asked why he brought a fully auto weapon home. That put an end to that and he has learned to shoot responsibly since then.

Looks like buckeye. Can't really tell from the pic without getting out a leaf id book. Why do you ask?