Still tinkering with the chicken coop

I changed the roof design to something simpler. I need to just pull a few hours together and finish it up.... been distracted by many other things.

Are you above or below angry bees?

Jimmy (local Bee officianado/expert) and I went to extract a bee hive from a porch overhang. We were unsure if the bees were in the wall or the soffet of the overhang. We started by cutting up the wall (removing the fascia), then proceeded to removing the soffet. We found them between the floor joists. About a half dozen combs. Lots of brood, not a lot of honey. We took the comb and placed them in the frames, and the frames in the box. After we realized we were still missing the queen. The survival rate of a queenless hive is pretty low. We could see that the bees were swarming back towards the house. We began to cut more and more. We realized we were overwhelmed by the sheer number of bees and not being able to locate the queen visually. There must have been several thousand bees.

We borrowed a "bee vacuum" from another local bee keeper (named Ya). The Bee vacuum is a bee safe vacuum for collecting a large number of bees.  Its weird when you grab a handful of bees and it feels like firm jello.  We were able to collect a pretty fair amount of the hive. Including what we believe to be the queen (as the swarm quickly started gathering on the vacuum.

I accidentally tipped over the vacuum filter (full of bees) they didn't like that at all. All of sudden the buzz volume went from a 5 to a 9. They all start buzzing and flapping their wings (signalling danger).

That night we moved the bees over to my new place and set them up. They were pissed by nightfall. They were following me everywhere with quite a ferrociousness. They were tame all day, but when they were pissed, they got piiiissed. Now I know what angry bees are like.  Next is to learn what angry african bees are like (fortunately we don't have the African bees here (yet)).

Now to see if they survive in their new home.



When we arrived just a few bees were outside. The bees were entering the house under the flashing, but we were unable to tell if they were going up between the studs to the window, or down into the overhang.

When we arrived just a few bees were outside. The bees were entering the house under the flashing, but we were unable to tell if they were going up between the studs to the window, or down into the overhang.

Found them in the overhang.

The comb

Me helping pull the comb out.

Serious bees, still not pissed, just a little confused that their home is gone.

In the vacuum canister, waiting to be transported.

I brought a piece of brood comb home for Nathan. we were able to watch this bee come out (born) this morning during breakfast.

Another

Another homerun by kimmel

Robo luv

Trippy SciFi love story. Well directed. A little slow, but interesting to see how robots and humans might interact and what robot-robot love might look like :)

Funny Song

Add another to the fire

AntiQ = Warhorse.

I mean, seriously, did they expect that trailer to garner any excitement.


http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/awards-campaign/posts/snl-takes-on-war-horse-and-misses-out
Well at least poking the fire is funny.

Chicken Coop

Going to try to build this....

Might make it a little shorter, and the eaves a little longer to keep the rain off the side and from coming in through the openings..

New Pet

Found it (he/she?) abandoned in the driveway. We have had it for a week now.

It is going to need a home. Working on some plans now....

Skurred str8t

The scared straight skits are pretty funny.  This a recurring theme they run every few episodes. More can be found on nbc.com




Love it when they lose it.

Some kids

I was in SF last week and Nathan was staring at a T-Rex skeleton. Nathan would run around and scream " T-Rex... Rahhhh..".

Another 7 maybe 8 year old Indian boy walks up with his mom, and starts naming all the bones of the leg. Then his mom starts to correct him on some of the foot bones.

Then I look at my boy, "Rahhh...."

I got work to do.

New music

This is good jam to cruise the island on
Josh WaWa White - Movin about my ways

The Anti-Q

Netflix should have an anti-queue feature. Its basically a list of movies that you never want to watch about or hear about.

The notebook, Mama Mia, the king's speech, the Artist, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Phonebooth, the Help,

the list goes on.


Then on top of that, you should be able to compound your double anti-list by not just banning a movie, but take the worst movie and double ban it, meaning indicate to netflix you want nothing to do with all the actors in a particular movie, and ban them for acting in such a stupid movie.

Some new music

On a somewhat similar note. I know who/what I am going for as for next Halloween. Will anyone recognize John Oates.