BilletHead

An adventure and meeting one of the colorful locals near the fishing destination of Bennitt springs. Get is done @oneshot and @oneshot 1. I have met owners at their short-term rentals and so far, none have been creepy. A out door fireside chat with oneshot might be enlightening just like he is on the forums.

I wanna know will there be a bed and breakfast involved?

Really easy to do if you are just feeding two. We can stretch one out like that. Remember to serve sides with it!

These are kinda a staging point for bees before picking out a final place to build a hive. The swarm traps I have out from in the yard to miles away represents a place to do a new hive. So if they choose a place like that they are portable and I can close those and put where I want.

Jd while researching this (Google) there all kinds of deals people do to enhance the chance of bees to choose the swarm to pick the scion. Such as wrapping the stem with cloth or screen wire and melting beeswax into that. I went with a minimal approach. My stems were dried wood with bark still hanging on. Some of the bark was loose. Took a draw knife and tried to clean off all the bark I could. Then rubbed beeswax and propolis on it. A couple drops of lemongrass oil at the junction of the stem and top. They have been up awhile, so the lemongrass scent is most likely about gone. IT may be a one and done deal and never get a hit again but one worked!

Yes, do both of these thanks for your input. Have a couple places in town we check on often. Garage sales are hit and miss but find other junk we don't need. A few auctions where I have learned to take a chair or bucket to sit on while waiting for an item, I want to bid on comes up. Do have a couple friends who collect that I trade with. We all have a wish list that we share and try to find what each of us are looking for.

Update to the bee chronicles, the Russian scion, As bad as things are I'm going to drop the Russian part. Personally, I hope the leader over there gets a dose of bad vodka. The scion is a deal that is put in bee yards popular in Europe nations. It is a place for bees swarming out of hives will gather before moving to a new home after splitting off of a hive. I have caught swarms off of low hanging limbs in my yard. Works but can be a pain because of where they choose to hang. The scion gives maybe easier place to hang out. Well one worked and I got my first swarm today. The catch coming up but first let's look at the scion. I googled them up and seen all kinds of contraptions. I did a spin of my own and put them out. A section of a branch with a plastic disk (bottom of a mineral tub) and an eye screw to keep them together. I made five to hang in the yard. Three places where I have seen swarms gather and the other places where they hopefully go. Two of the places where they are placed, I have hand caught swarms low to the ground. The other place is sky high and unreachable but not now if all goes to plans. Here are scion pictures and where they are placed. First two are the ski high places, note these high ones are on a pully where I can let them down to transfer the swarm. And the other, The other three are low and very reachable, This is the one that caught today in a short apple tree, Well, another unsuccessful turkey hunt this morning I was pretty well spent, plumb worn out. I came home and ate some lunch and actually fell asleep in the chair. I don't do this, never. When I woke up I fed my sourdough starter and took what was left and other recyclables out to the recycle bin to decompose. I looked towards the bee hives to see the scion in the dwarf apple tree with a swarm hanging on it. First thing I started to do was panic. I told myself this will be the easiest one yet to capture and calm down. I put on my bee jacket and gloves. Opened the hive I wanted to put them into. Then noticed the Utah pictograph hive had less going on at the entrance so it was the one that threw off the swarm. A good thing in my opinion as it was the frame I posted that was full of brood and this queen that left if it is truly her is a good one. I took a picture of the occupied scion, I just unhooked the wire and carried the swarm over to the new hive that was ready. I had separated the frames. I held the swarm over the opening and shook it. The bees fell right into place. I rehung the scion back into place and slid the frames together and closed the hive. Went into the garage and got a board and leaned it up to the hive entrance. Went back to the scion where a few bees had gone back to. Took them to the board and shook it again. Bees were already fanning at the entrance saying come hither, new home queen in here! They began to march up ramp into hive, I hope they take and really feel like they will. Pretty cool day I thought for a swarm throw off. Interesting hobby and fun to watch these amazing creatures. Turkey or not this was a good day in BilletHeadVille.

That a boy use it all! Legs and thighs are underused and wasted by most.

Hey you all, Taking a shot in the dark here hoping one of you might have a line on one of the sizes I need. I am trying to build a set of "Arc Wagner" skillets. They were made size 5 through 12. I am missing the 5, 6, and 11. Really easy to identify because marked really well. I would prefer the exact type pictured but would take a variant. The Wagner word is in an arc but could be straight. No size mark on top of handle, The underside of the handle has a rib, and all have a heat ring, If anyone has one that they would part with cash or would like to trade for another brand or size skillet you might want I can do that too. If you run across one, please let me know. I realize there is EBAY. Sorry to maybe offend some sellers that may be on here, but that place is crazy. Lonely skillets looking for their brothers and sisters

Every day, every place. I had to do a trip to Springfield last Friday morning. Trip down in the dark and trip back around noon. I was doing posted limit. Some went by like I was sitting still.

Yea Seth! Congrats young man. I messed up this morning. There will be another day hopefully.

Very nice JD.

Nice Rick! I can't do another rod. Using a Z axis for my newest model. I do have a question though, how much for a dose of the mojo you seem to have? 😉

Bear with me here, Morel season is short so ignore the grilled duck and salad which I post often but please feast with your eyes the morel fry that goes with the rest of the meal. Enough to share if you were here.

Two more quick looks today in same places. Still a few around but less. 25 total more or less. A few we left were drying up some.

Thanks, so I will not give up hope. I have been using a knife and cutting off at ground level instead of pinching off bringing up some dirt. These this season have been so clean never needing a rinse just mushroom brush. Bugless even.

HAHAHAHA, Well inside now a bit earlier than normal. The bed frame broke (insert joke here). Not going to worry about a replacement until fall.

They taste the same so I would not hesitate either.

I have never tried but do toss any water and trimmings into one spot. Nothing so far but it may not be the right spot. Good luck and keep us informed. I like you have seen many videos on seeding morel slurries and other various deals. Got my fingers crossed for ya.

And a follow up to smoked pickled eggs. Day 7, two thumbs up! Yum. 👍👍

Full of good mojo I'm betting that goes with them!

No expert here but I would spread on raked dirt under leaves and then cover up with retaining leaf matter.

After the @rps post awhile back I have been hankering for Quiche. Pat used to make it regularly several years ago but we kind of quit it. So, when he posted his quiche, I said I would like to try one with morels. Today that happened with some of our finds. I looked for recipes and found one I thought we would like and like we did, yum! Morel mushroom Quiche with caramelized onions. Laying out the ingredients. Morels, red onions, fresh thyme from our garden and minced garlic. Much sautéing going on here, We then assembled by layering the cooked onions on the bottom, over that went the morels and juices from butter and what the morels released. Then the liquid element went over and into that. it was 4 eggs, sour cream and whole milk and some S&P. Into the oven to bake, no quiche pan but there was a Wagner ARC #8 skillet circa 1915 - 1920s involved . Sliced and plated salad on the side. I ate this and another slice. I rate this as one of my favorites. Hoping to do this again in a couple weeks if the shrooms are still here and again this summer subbing chanterelles for the morels.

Today was a good day. Hit the same place as yesterday first. With the new set of eyes there was pointing and retrieving. First greeting, Many were in places to get to. Under and in the middle of multiflora rose, ugh I detest the stuff, but I have a secret weapon and she can get right into the middle of the wicked stuff, Only had to help her out a couple of times:) The basket was beginning to fill,. We checked a two more places and when it was said and done we had 57. Then home to try a new dish! Report is going up on what's cooking.

Pretty neat John, I give those bees places to live also. Any little place they could find to build they do including the pee hole on my outboards. I draw the line on the carpenter bees and trap them. Also a good wide piece of wood will swat the hovering things to oblivion.