The Good Banter Thread

[addy1]

Wow addy, sorry to read about the health scare you had with your husband. Glad to see he's on the path to recovery.
Good thing for modern medicine.

No kidding Mitch

but................. HAPPY DANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!! Going home today, doc said he is stellar patient, 3.5 days after major surgery being released from hospital jail! YIPPEEE!

We both are ecstatic, our puppy is waiting for us! Well as soon as we get him settled in.

 

[MitchM]

They probably released him early because they know that he'll get excellent care at home too.

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[HARO]

Good to hear that, Addy! He'll recuperate much faster at home than in the hospital. We know you'll make sure of THAT!
John

 

[addy1]

I got my whip out.............behave or else!

 

[j.w]

Good, good, good, happy he gets to get outta there. He can watch you work now from your nice big windows. Him sipping his lemonade while you pull weeds and mow

 

[haver79]

Just catching up on this thread. Addy so glad things went well for your hubby. Always so much better to recuperate at home.

 

[addy1]

Unreal how things just take off and if you don't see your yard for a week what a change. Can't walk the pup in the grass she disappears, the veg garden ........well you all know what rain sun not tilled or raked from winter ='s WEEDS my tomatoes waiting to go out nicely growing in the house have inch size tomatoes on them. Job for this weekend or next week, they will wait. The other veggies waiting to go are all growing great.
Wish I had a kid I could hire.

Lilies slowly putting up pads, not unexpected since I trimmed them heavily. lotus doing fine, slowly sending up leaves,
4 inches of rain coming tomorrow, going to try and mow our wet grass today, do a tall mow then next week cut it shorter.
In the next few weeks I will sort of be caught up, sort of...............

We hit the bed, that was it out like a light! He is feeling shaky but good.

 

[sissy]

cloudy and cooler here and you can feel the damp moist air .So far no rain but it is really early yet .I see they are getting rain up in West Virginia

 

[j.w]

Addy you sure have your work cut out for you. No kid around your hood to help? You will just have to do a little at a time when your weather cooperates.
Glad Mark is doing well and getting his strength back. Hope he will take it easy and heal up quick.

 

[addy1]

Addy you sure have your work cut out for you. No kid around your hood to help? You will just have to do a little at a time when your weather cooperates.
Glad Mark is doing well and getting his strength back. Hope he will take it easy and heal up quick.

we have either tiny kids or high school kids, the high schoolers are not interested the tiny kids are too tiny.

got some mowing done now under severe serious t storm warning, flash flood, flooding, etc.............

 

[j.w]

Whoa you actually mowed out there in the rain and w/ storm coming? Take cover now and just watch the view. I am looking at your camera windows now and see the wind is picking up some.
Going out to prune some sedums down so they can regrow and be have stronger stems this Summer. I'll cut them down again maybe in June to make them even better.

 

[Big Lou]

Not all times can be happy times yet we carry on till the clouds part and life is once again sunny.

 

[addy1]

Whoa you actually mowed out there in the rain and w/ storm coming? Take cover now and just watch the view. I am looking at your camera windows now and see the wind is picking up some.
Going out to prune some sedums down so they can regrow and be have stronger stems this Summer. I'll cut them down again maybe in June to make them even better.

lol jw it was cloudy and windy this am, I went out around 7am to mow, grass was real wet, but our mower can handle it. I just didn't mow the side field, too steep of hills it needs to be dry before I do, ow the mower slides.
The rest of the day spent getting him soft loungers, footies, etc to make him comfy, kohls, cvs and of course costco....we were out of food. Did it while he napped, made sure phone was right next to him. Out of sugar for the bees, I go though 30 lbs per week now.

 

[haver79]

Wow addy 30 lbs a week. How do you feed it to the bees? Sugar water? I didn't know you had to feed them sugar. Guess until the flowers are plentiful and producing pollen and necter?

 

[addy1]

Wow addy 30 lbs a week. How do you feed it to the bees? Sugar water? I didn't know you had to feed them sugar. Guess until the flowers are plentiful and producing pollen and necter?

They are new hives, a nuc is a new queen with 5 frames of eggs, larvae, pupae and bees, some workers, some nurse bees etc. You need to grow that 5 frames to over 20 before they really start collecting nectar for honey.

raining at the rate of 9 inches an hour right now.

anyways, back to bees.............. Here in Maryland we have a very short nectar season, 6 weeks. It takes over 8 weeks to get a hive going well. In the first year of the bees our whole drive is to get hives strong enough to survive the winter. Each hive goes through 20 lbs of sugar a week, 1 cup sugar 1 cup water I fill the feeder with 2 gallons at a time. The feeder I use is a hive top feeder. A box that sits on the other boxes full of sugar water, 2 gallons.
Normally it takes 50 lbs to get enough brood in a new hive. Then by the time you have enough brood, the nectar season is over. The brood is the machine that keeps enough worker bees out there getting honey, They only live 6 weeks.
So in august you start feeding them again, once the nectar flow dries up they start eating the honey, there needs to be 60 lbs of honey for the hive to survive winter. They will not go into a hive top feeder during winter they cluster in a ball, their only drive to keep the queen and brood a warm toasty 94 degrees, summer and winter, they also control the humidity, they go through a lot of water, one reason it is nice to provide them water that is close i.e. our ponds.

It has been so cool and wet this spring they have not had much nectar to collect. A rain storm can destroy the nectar in flowers, dilutes it, washes it out, same with the pollen they collect. So we feed them.

That first teaspoon of honey is going to be worth around 2500 dollars lol, between the hives, the bees, the flower seeds, the electric fence to save those flowers from the deer, the trees we planted for the bees, on and on lol