Awesome weekend at Bud 5

buzzbee · April 14, 2013, 01:29:34 PM

Wow what a weekend. Today is Sunday and unfortunately the weather turned to rain and gusty winds cutting our weekend activities short. But considering a tornado and heavy rain moved through on Thursday knocking down trees and power being out the turnout was spectacular.
A bunch of us gathered Friday and got acquainted with one another. And then off to supper at the local restaurant where I think we may have overwhelmed them. We showed up with probably a group of 30 or so.
Yesterday we started out with an great breakfast from Scott and Peggy while waiting for things to warm up and bees to get active.
Throughout the day they did cutouts from nuc boxes,demonstrated doing splits and did a cutout from an outhouse. Then for lunch Schawee prepared a deer piquant which was awesome. Then for supper we had Baileys jambalaya with sausage rabbit and alligator. and shrimp and crab alfredo.

Here is a listing of people that came, and If I missed anyone let me know.
Bud
Mary Beth (Clyde) and sprout
JP and Liz
Schawee
Ziffabeek and Hippie Beek
Scott (Hardwood) and Peg
JM Blakeny
Fireguy (Travis)
PDMattox(Dallas) ,Austin David and Emma
Nate
Emil ( Monkeyman)
Alan Buckley
JoeD and Linda
Bailey
Moots and Charlene and nephew Easton
Plan B (Marshall) and Kelly
VMMartin(Mike)
Bobby
Tony Hutchins
Tommy Hutchins
Bailey
Brian and Tammy Muldrow(BT Muldrow)
CDRay and JC Small
KathyP
Edgar and 2 friends, I didn't catch their names.
And of course me(Buzzbee) ,Ma Buzzbee(Jen) and Buzzbee jr(Josh)

If I missed anyone let me know. And it was my pleasure to meet you all.

John(Beemaster) we all missed you and wished you could have made it this year. maybe Bud6!! :)

buzzbee · April 14, 2013, 01:33:32 PM

I want to add Buds had line of sight internet service and the tower he transmits to was taken down by rthe storm The man who provides the service worked hard on Friday and Saturday too get us online to share with everyone. Hats off to him

PS If you have any photos to share please share them here.

iddee · April 14, 2013, 04:24:20 PM

Buzz, did you fly or drive down?

buzzbee · April 14, 2013, 04:49:57 PM

Drove down Idee.

iddee · April 14, 2013, 04:58:36 PM

Going back up I-85, you will be within 12 mile of my house. Wanna stop for a meal. I'll buy.

Joe D · April 14, 2013, 07:15:55 PM

Here's a few of what I took.

Joe D · April 14, 2013, 07:21:38 PM

For those that couldn't make it, sorry, you missed a great time. The food at the restraunt Friday nite, the meals that Schawee fixed for lunch and the supper that Baily fixed on Saturday were all great, as well as breakfast Sunday morning at Bud's. You should start planning to attend next year. Lots of fellowship with all and learning too. Great time to be had by all

Joe

cdray · April 14, 2013, 07:25:54 PM

Buzz,
J.C. and I had a WONDERFUL time meeting, eating and of course, playing with bees. Everyone was super nice and we learned a lot. I hope we can make it to Bud 6! Thanks again everyone for the great time! David

Here is a link to some of my pictures

http://s420.photobucket.com/user/cdray/slideshow/Facebook/BUD%205

Kathyp · April 14, 2013, 08:11:48 PM

Couldn't access your photobucket for some reason

goatmanbees · April 14, 2013, 08:14:27 PM

Great pictures!

cdray · April 14, 2013, 08:17:09 PM

Kathy, I adjusted the privacy settings...try again and let me know...Thanks. David.

Nate · April 14, 2013, 11:18:24 PM

One of the best weeks/weekends I've had. Thanks to all for the fellowship and a great time. I wish safe travels home for everyone, too bad Sunday rained out, but we had a blast on Saturday. Until next year.

Intheswamp · April 14, 2013, 11:39:31 PM

Looking at the pictures it looks like everyone was either smiling big, concentrating on what was going on, or...goth. :-D

Looks like it was a great gathering!!!! :)

Ed

Moots · April 14, 2013, 11:46:00 PM

Buzzbee,
Thanks for the recap, couldn't agree more, it was a great time and wonderful to meet everyone. Thanks to everyone for sharing their pics, I was so into enjoying every moment that I never even took my camera out. Just like everyone else, I was disappointed that the rain moved in on us Sunday, but after the beautiful day we had Saturday, itls tough to complain.

Also a huge thanks to Bud for hosting as well as Schawee, Bailey and everyone else who played a role in making sure everyone was so well fed.

schawee · April 14, 2013, 11:52:11 PM

just getting home. had a great time meeting with everyone that was there.cant wait till bud 6

buzzbee · April 15, 2013, 12:03:51 AM

And let's not forget me got to meet Haddon on Friday.unfortunately with the rainout we weren't able to see him again on Sunday.

JP · April 15, 2013, 10:07:25 AM

Really enjoyed it! Good times, good folks and good food, can't ask for much more than that!

Give me a little time and I'll start putting some videos up.

...JP

Kathyp · April 15, 2013, 11:05:41 AM

on my way home also. Got an earlier flight. Husband knows of my adventures of the tale can be told. :-D. hope we can do this again next year.

cdray · April 15, 2013, 11:09:00 AM

Alan and Dallas demonstrating a split.

Splitting a hive at Bud 5

The Port-O-John cutout.

Port-O-John Cutout-Bud 5 Macon, MS. April 13th 2013

Haddon · April 15, 2013, 01:23:32 PM

I had a great time Friday and was in the car on my way when I got the text that it was rained out Sunday. I would have went on but was worried about the weather getting worse. These are the few pictures I took now where are the pics of Schawee sitting in the port a john