The Honey Factory

[R2elk]

I built a pond for the birds since so many were getting West Nile. One of their issues was dehydration. After I made the pond, I very seldom find dead songbirds. I also planted some reeds and then the birds planted some other reeds. The ones I planted aren't too hard to control but the ones the birds planted will fill the pond very quickly.

The point is that the bees use the heck out of the pond and its overflow. The reeds give them something to hang onto while sucking up the water that the hive needs.

I added a super to each of the Italian hives this morning. Both were already working the first super on each hive. I also checked on the Saskatraz and they are also working in their first super and even have some capped honey.

 

[duluthralphie]

I went out to check in the bees this evening, there were thousands of bees flying around the 2nd hive. It might have been an orientation flight. I have never seen that many bees before around the hive.

The first box seemed to have more bees, but nothing like the second hive has.

I am still going to wait to look into the hive, maybe Sunday, because that is next week.

 

[karenerwin]

My mentor is coming over tomorrow evening so she can check out the split I did.
I went and looked at the hive a couple of times today ( from the other side of the chain link fence). I did see a few bees flying in and out of the new hive. I may have seen 10 at the most and none at the fewest! LOL But I was glad to at least see some, especially since the first time I looked I saw none. The original hive was business like usual.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Not on par with R2Elk’s pics...

but I just took this phone pic of some of the lady workers at the copper bird bath ...

I inherited a weird/ugly copper plated bowl thing that works great as a bird bath/ bee cantina...

the rocks were imported from Michigan’s UP... because my wife apparently thinks the Ozarks didn’t have enough rocks



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I like it!
And your wife has good taste in rocks.
I usually come home with a rock or two from places we go.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

I like it!
And your wife has good taste in rocks.
I usually come home with a rock or two from places we go.

I have literally had to pack up and move rocks in the past

at some point when your spouse is making you carry boxes of rocks, you can’t help but thinking she’s just messing with you

She keeps her favorite baby pet rocks in a barrel by the front door, I think it’s so that visitors can know we’re crazy before they commit to coming inside, lol

 

[shawluvsbirds]

I have literally had to pack up and move rocks in the past

at some point when your spouse is making you carry boxes of rocks, you can’t help but thinking she’s just messing with you

She keeps her favorite baby pet rocks in a barrel by the front door, I think it’s so that visitors can know we’re crazy before they commit to coming inside, lol

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I luv them.

 

[CindyinSD]

I have literally had to pack up and move rocks in the past

at some point when your spouse is making you carry boxes of rocks, you can’t help but thinking she’s just messing with you

She keeps her favorite baby pet rocks in a barrel by the front door, I think it’s so that visitors can know we’re crazy before they commit to coming inside, lol

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OMG! My grandpa was a big rockhound and I took care of him in his declining years, thus inheriting the Collection. I have hauled those dam rocks around with me ever since, including some I'm no longer able to lift (and if you were to see them I think you'd be impressed that I was ever able to lift them. )

But they're pretty nice rocks--petrified wood, boxwork, rose quartz... The smaller ones: agate of all kinds, amethyst geodes, oh, all sorts of semi-precious stuff. I'm not really into the whole rockhound thing, but I can't throw them away, either. (sigh) School of Mines already has a basement full AND a museum full. I've always intended to make them into something, but it's remarkably hard to just "make something" out of a big pile of huge rocks.

 

[duluthralphie]

OMG! My grandpa was a big rockhound and I took care of him in his declining years, thus inheriting the Collection. I have hauled those dam rocks around with me ever since, including some I'm no longer able to lift (and if you were to see them I think you'd be impressed that I was ever able to lift them. )

But they're pretty nice rocks--petrified wood, boxwork, rose quartz... The smaller ones: agate of all kinds, amethyst geodes, oh, all sorts of semi-precious stuff. I'm not really into the whole rockhound thing, but I can't throw them away, either. (sigh) School of Mines already has a basement full AND a museum full. I've always intended to make them into something, but it's remarkably hard to just "make something" out of a big pile of huge rocks.

I also have moved rocks, over and over and over, because the Polish Witch thinks they are lucky rocks. Which they are because they get to move.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

....but it's remarkably hard to just "make something" out of a big pile of huge rocks.

You’ve obviously not watched enough Flintstones cartoons

Here’s some ideas

Sidewalk rocks

Rocks in a bottle of scented oil, next to random rocks collecting dust

Rock art thing

Rock clock

Bucket of rocks... aka door stop

Rocks on a shelf

Pictures of rocks

 

[featherhead007]

I always wondered what to feed a pet rock? Mine died many years ago, probably my fault.