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When I joined BYC I lived in Sin City, USA....Las Vegas. It's a double entendre. And my first avatar was a photo of Peeps in a Strip Club, since removed. Twisted, yeah, I know. But it was pretty funny.
 
Wow you all have been a very chatty bunch this weekend!
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SCG yes, I do think we know all about not winning drawings for things we really want.
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Bamadude, my avatar name is actually a version of my nickname. My nickname is DiDi and the first time I went to get an email address I wanted Dsquared but that was already taken so I took out a couple of vowels. I have used dsqard for many login names since.
I went on a hike to a mountain lake on Saturday. It was my second big goal to do once I quit smoking because I didn't make it there the first time I tried. I made it to the lake and I swear got a cosmic reward for my hard work on the way down.


Cynthia, you have probably heard of Lake Blanche in Big Cottonwood Canyon.







It was a gorgeous day to do the hike and a gorgeous trail to take.
 
nooo. I graduated high school in 93. There used to be a funny little publication called "beach bull" out of panama city beach fl. I read about it

There was one on Federal Property next to Navarre Beach west of Ft. Walton, Florida.
 
That's very interesting and obviously proving true here. Our bee school teacher told us not to use a queen excluder because it's also called a "honey excluder" because it's more difficult to get to for the workers. However, I have burrholes in the front of each box and they seem to use that instead of the main hive entrance, so perhaps it will work. I don't have enough workers in the hive for a swarm, maybe soon though. It took a long time for that hive to regain strength after the long winter. I cleaned out piles and piles of bees this spring.
Do you use foundation?
I'm not sure we have goldenrod here, but I was warned about the smell (dirty gym socks) from the books I read. Hopefully I don't experience that.
I've never used a queen excluder.
I've seen some people use mediums for brood chambers but around here we usually use 2 deeps on each hive for brood. The queen rarely goes above the second deep. We think it's important to get a lot of brood built up through the summer and deeps are better for getting the cluster through the winter.
2 deeps will give the cluster a lot of honey above it to move up into as winter progresses.
I always use foundation. I have a mix of equipment. Wax foundation, plastic foundation and full plastic frames. I have mostly deeps and shallows but I have about 3 medium supers.

I have had pet rats for a number of years and my first one was named Lula (lularat) She was a very special little lady.
Do you know a good way to catch a pet rat that is running around my back porch? There are lots of hiding places but he comes out periodically day and night.
I want to catch it alive.

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Bamadude, my avatar name is actually a version of my nickname. My nickname is DiDi and the first time I went to get an email address I wanted Dsquared but that was already taken so I took out a couple of vowels. I have used dsqard for many login names since.
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Cynthia, you have probably heard of Lake Blanche in Big Cottonwood Canyon.





It was a gorgeous day to do the hike and a gorgeous trail to take.
Beautiful pictures.
In my mind, I was pronouncing your screen name like discard.
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Cynthia or any other Utah people near Orem?
 

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