Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
10 Sep 2019 5 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Do not wait until you're ready to set up hives to order your bees. Packages and nucs go quickly. Order them in December or January for delivery in March or April. I don't recall how many hives I've had over the years. 10 maybe. Of those, I'd purcha...
9 Sep 2019 4 minute read 2 comments uthus2000
When is the best time to get things together to raise bees next year? If you're a beginner, there's no time like the present.You cannot just throw everything together and hope that it works. Am I allowed bees where I live? If in town, the very firs...
7 Sep 2019 3 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
November was two years ago when me and Grandpa went huntin'. He rents this place on the Ocmulgee right close to Abbeville on the north side of town. I 'member it bein' kinda cold but it weren't overcast or nothin' like that. We was gonna go that morn...
2 Sep 2019 2 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Gammy and I live in rural Illinois. On Sundays after church if we have nothing to do we sometimes jump and the truck and go for a drive. We usually drive down to Chester, IL, and park along the Mississippi and watch the river traffic. Sometimes we go...
2 Sep 2019 1 minute read 4 comments uthus2000
I went into the local IGA (Independent Grocers Association) and found these in the produce section. I live in a small town in the mid-west with a population of about 3,500. This is something that I've never seen here. If I go to a larger town to a Pu...
31 Aug 2019 4 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Honey bee problems worldwide may or may not be at least partially due to neonicotinoid-based pesticides. The debate is ongoing. I will not address either side of that in this article. I had originally planned to write this a day or two after the fi...
29 Aug 2019 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
I have been an electrician for the last couple of years. That, however, is about to change. I realized two or three months ago that my thinking was becoming a little foggy and my attention to detail was going by the wayside. These are not good things...
19 Aug 2019 2 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Honey bee problems worldwide may or may not be at least partially due to neonicotinoid-based pesticides. The debate is ongoing. I will not address either side of that in this article. I don't have any bees this year. I'd been keeping bees for probabl...
18 Aug 2019 1 minute read 0 comments uthus2000
Occasionally I go into houses and find things that are nightmarish - not because they scare me for what they are but what they could have done. Recently I was doing some work for a guy who was flipping a house. Most of the things were normal. I just...
17 Aug 2019 1 minute read 1 comment uthus2000
A couple of years ago a family friend invited me over to help catch and clean prawns. I'd never done anything of the like so I decided to go check it out. This is the video that I did of the day. It's a little cheesy, but I was still trying to figure...
