Washingtonians

[CarolynF]

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What a DAY! In all the years I lived and worked in Seattle, I never saw that! Which was more fun, the walk or the show?

 

[CarolynF]

Oh.... cool thing for me today... I opened the door of the coop just in time to see Ginger (my EE) lay her egg!! Never thought I'd actually get the chance, even though my 8 y.o. granddaughter has.

Then she pushed it to the center of the nest box. Why?

 

[Ogress]

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What a DAY! In all the years I lived and worked in Seattle, I never saw that! Which was more fun, the walk or the show?

Definitely the walk - well, at least until we saw the body paint men. I would have still gone had I known, but I would have left DD home! We would have missed the painted men though, as she was the one who noticed and pointed it out to us. Years ago, my friends and I used to go to Beths sometimes at 3 am just to people watch.

I bought some nice beads at the bead show and a little jewelry box shaped like a mother hen with 3 chicks.

 

[stargazingmommy]

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What a DAY! In all the years I lived and worked in Seattle, I never saw that! Which was more fun, the walk or the show?

Definitely the walk - well, at least until we saw the body paint men. I would have still gone had I known, but I would have left DD home! We would have missed the painted men though, as she was the one who noticed and pointed it out to us. Years ago, my friends and I used to go to Beths sometimes at 3 am just to people watch.

I bought some nice beads at the bead show and a little jewelry box shaped like a mother hen with 3 chicks.

My teens were in oregon for fairies world last week....my 15 yr old was talking about the awesome body paint she got to see this year...nice.
My teens were both in the pride parade here a couple weeks ago, and they and I will be going to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SlutWalk in a couple weeks.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

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A Topbar is the way I plan to go.

Is there any specific reason you are going top bar? If you harvest with a TB you force your bees to work harder to survive.

 

[jbear]

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A Topbar is the way I plan to go.

Is there any specific reason you are going top bar? If you harvest with a TB you force your bees to work harder to survive.

They do make bars with varying sizes of comb pattern, so it's more natural to the bees, and you also don't have to destroy the bar to harvest the honey. I can't remember where I saw them, if I find them I will post the link. It might have been in a catalog too..

 

[VelvettFog]

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Lap Joint.

 

[broodytood]

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Lap Joint.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_CS-a-DGRQ8/TfS5u3hAZzI/AAAAAAAAF6g/PWutVmMtqJw/s640/IMG_2555.JPG

What saw do you make those with?

 

[VelvettFog]

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Lap Joint.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-_CS-a-DGRQ8/TfS5u3hAZzI/AAAAAAAAF6g/PWutVmMtqJw/s640/IMG_2555.JPG

What saw do you make those with?

I happen to be lucky enough to have a huge shop and way too many tools

I use a Radial Arm Saw with a dado blade. Here's some shots:

I could put that dado blade on my table saw and do the same thing, or I could use a router - either hand held, or on a table.

 

[ByN8ureHomstead]

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A Topbar is the way I plan to go.

Is there any specific reason you are going top bar? If you harvest with a TB you force your bees to work harder to survive.

To me it seem more natural for the bees. Plus it looks easier for me to build, I will build mine out of 2x4 or 2x6 and 4 foot long. If I need to I could put a super on top.