Small town life and observations in the mid-west.
10 Sep 2019 5 minute read 0 comments uthus2000 $0.03
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 $0.02
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 $0.01
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 $0.03
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 $0.01
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 $0.03
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 $0.02
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 $0.03
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 $0.01
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 $0.00
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...
