jdmidwest

Too many distractions..

Going to need the production, looks like Montauk will be down for a while. Trout looks pretty slim over at this part of the state.

I bet she is "Hot" under that getup. I normally am. Keeping bees in a full suit tends to leave you soaked all the way thru underneath after 5 minutes.

That net makes him look so much smaller. You need a net in the boat for the stockers, like the ones you hang on your back.

Reading the old beekeeping books, most of the diseases the they treated for 50 years ago are not seen in colonies now. The mites have always been there for a while, but back then they were smaller tracheal mites. Hive beetles are new in past 30 years from Africa, they are hard to manage without chemicals. The salt, oil traps in hive, spraying ground with permethrin all helps. Bottom line is to keep the hive strong and don't mess with them all of the time. It disrupts them every time you crack them open.

Nice story, but I find it hard to believe that bees could survive on a commercial hive for 8 years left alone. He may have gotten lucky and had a swarm that came along and took up residence in the hive before he got there. The most I can get out of any of my hives is about 3 years without some form of restocking. Queens fail, mites overtake them, small hive beetles infest them. Comb gets old and needs swapped out. I am a different kind of beekeeper, I don't feed any supplements. I don't preventive treat the hive with any chemicals. I don't fuss over them much, they are wonderful bugs that have an interesting life. But in life, only the healthy should survive to carry on. I do split the hives to prevent spring swarms if possible and make new hives from the originals. The removal of a queen breaks a brood cycle and buys them additional time where the mites can't lay eggs and kills them off for a while. I spread mineral salt under the hives to kill the beetle larva when it falls out of the hives to pupate. I keep the hive in good physical shape and the bees dry. In my 12 years of keeping bees, I have lost many hives. Always a few every year, one time over 2/3rds of them. I have bought 4 hives of bees and been given 1 swarm. I was up to 20 viable hives at the peak, down to none 1 time. I am currently at 6 going into winter, maybe.....

Or, when you use them on the river and hit rocks, trees, and shoals all of time. I have had to hold onto foot pedal to keep all from going overboard. That rubber goes bad pretty quick and loses grip, hole gets wallered out, then all lets go.

I always thought the rubber wings on those mounts were for vibration reduction. Learned something. They always tear out after a while on the jet boat and I have sandwiched them to the aluminum underside with a big fender washer and lock nut grounding the trolling motor to the boat I guess. Will have to look into that when it warms up and put a rubber gasket under that fender washer. Need to find a rubber washer to do the trick.

The only time I will feed sugar is when I split a hive. The hive I make will only have nurse bees and capped brood about to hatch. They will be short on foragers until the new queen catches up production in about 6 weeks. The last few years, I have been able to provide the splits with enough honey from parent hive to skip the feed. I have had comments about the taste of my honey. Some say it's the best they have eaten. Commercial keepers have to feed to keep hives strong during dearths of nectar. If done correctly, that will not enter the honey supers that are put on and taken off during peak flows. The honey supers are what get harvested, boxes that were on hives during feeding will stay with the bees.

We have done past the stage to worry about cougars. I see enough wrinkles now, can't imagine one 10 years older than me, yuk.... I worry more about bobcats, more of them. And I am after a single wild boar roaming the property now, big ole long tusks and they have been known to charge and attack.

Scoured pretty bad. Guards still posted at park?

He is the only one that seems to know how to make one...

I wonder how that family name came about? Licklider!!

Too bad you have to wait for next hatch in 17 years

Drained some out of the 4 wheeler this fall after it sit for a few summer months that looked same way. Don't think a match would lite it. It's a government plan to force us to buy battery powered transportation.

Somebody took a good whiz in that guys tank....

At least it comes out the front end. Eggs come from the other in a shared tube from a chicken. Nobody ever thinks about that one either.

And bags for 12 cents.. But I did get 2 ribeyes vacuum packed for $12 for deer camp this weekend. Probably tough as leather... But claimed to be grass fed.

Probably not cold enough yet to make trout happy. It has been a warm fall.

The spring branch there is pretty protected from the floods.

I saw that too, looks like he thought his foot was still going to grow into them.

Looks like beak of something trying to stick its head out of your hand.

I saw some pics, looked like tons of sand in the runs and around them. It was a scouring flood from upstream that gouged the sands up from the stream and dumped in the slower parts, the water below the levees of the runs.

How could you tell? You would have had to had Didymo on your shoes for it to be effective.... It was a kneejerk reaction that resulted in alot of taxpayer dollars wasted and everyone having to give up felt sole boots.

Like the $30,000 Didymo boot wash stations the installed at every trout place, even Greer Spring. That one required some work getting water to it.