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danno

December 03, 2014, 09:23:30 PM
Just hit unread topics and there was 13.   11 were coffee house.   Times they are a changing

hjon71

#1
December 03, 2014, 10:42:31 PM
Quote from: danno on December 03, 2014, 09:23:30 PM
Just hit unread topics and there was 13.   11 were coffee house.   Times they are a changing

Hahaha beekeeping is on the back burner for most North American beeks. Gotta have something to talk about. 
:mrgreen: Can you dig it?
Quite difficult matters can be explained even to a slow-witted man, if only he has not already adopted a wrong opinion about them; but the simplest things cannot be made clear even to a very intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he already knows, and knows indubitably, the truth of the matter under consideration. -Leo Tolstoy

BlueBee

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December 03, 2014, 11:04:27 PM
Some of us already know how to keep bees  :laugh:

iddee

#3
December 03, 2014, 11:21:28 PM
Wish you would teach me. Been at it 38 years and my bees still die.
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me . . . Anything can happen, child. Anything can be"

*Shel Silverstein*

danno

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December 04, 2014, 08:48:41 AM
Quote from: BlueBee on December 03, 2014, 11:04:27 PM
Some of us already know how to keep bees  :laugh:
Now I don't remember Is it jan or feb that you give yours water in MICHIGAN.   That is if they live that long

CBT

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December 06, 2014, 09:54:51 PM
Quote from: iddee on December 03, 2014, 11:21:28 PM
Wish you would teach me. Been at it 38 years and my bees still die.
Boy I hope bees are not part of your retirement plan!😉

Kathyp

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December 07, 2014, 11:02:27 AM
every winter is like this and every winter someone notes it.  if it were not for our Australian friends, i don't think we'd have any bee topics in the winter   :-D

OK.  here's some beekeeping stuff...

My hives are still out there and upright!
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

Eric Bosworth

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December 08, 2014, 08:13:03 AM
Quote from: kathyp on December 07, 2014, 11:02:27 AM

OK.  here's some beekeeping stuff...

My hives are still out there and upright!


Yeah well bears are starting to go into hibernation....
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Kathyp

#8
December 08, 2014, 01:23:20 PM
 :-D
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

rdy-b

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December 10, 2014, 05:07:15 AM
Quote from: danno on December 03, 2014, 09:23:30 PM
Just hit unread topics and there was 13.   11 were coffee house.   Times they are a changing

yes we are coming out of the CCD era and the big push for beekeeping by hobbyists have run there course -
its not easy- and most that gave a whole hearted try are held in high regard by me-truth be told its a money
pit to keep bees for a hobby-the chattier will continue its redundant form in the spring--you have ask a question
bring on the decision-i only do bees -coffeehouse can be found many places--RDY-B

Dallasbeek

#10
December 10, 2014, 12:15:38 PM
If hobby beekeeping has "run it's course," why are bees suppliers selling out of bees earlier each year?  Some of the big suppliers used to have nucs for sale in January and even February (for delivery in April or May), but now are selling out in December. 

The number of beekeepers in the US is still below the numbers reported 40 or 50 years ago, according to some figures I've seen.  I see more people getting into beekeeping as Boomers retire, it seems.
"Liberty lives in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no laws, no court can save it." - Judge Learned Hand, 1944

GSF

#11
December 10, 2014, 01:40:29 PM
The State of Alabama, and probably some other states, are offering grants for first time beekeepers. I don't think it has ran it's course. I'm sure my community doesn't set the national trend, but I know of two new folks who's put in for the grant money and a couple more who's been asking me a lot of questions. Our beekeeping club/association has two or three couples who don't even have bees yet. Truth is, anything new will get old and the interest will fade. I just don't think we're there yet.
When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - then you know your nation is doomed.

Dallasbeek

#12
December 10, 2014, 03:19:48 PM
Yep.  At our beekeepers association potluck dinner last night I met two first-year beekeepers --- and one former hobby beekeeper who now has 120 hives!  She's not yet at the professional level, but she's getting there.
"Liberty lives in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no laws, no court can save it." - Judge Learned Hand, 1944

Highlander

#13
December 10, 2014, 07:31:55 PM
A bit cold here to do much with the bees right now, snow, rain, ice....I do WANT to go and look in on them, but...

Hobby bee keeping has far form run its course. I stared two years ago and love it, I have two close neighbors who have taken up keeping bees because of mine. We have several dozen one or two hive set ups within a ten mile radius, no one is looking beyond the hobby level...well, except me.. I am thinking of it.   Plus, its really a nice fun hobby fro me.

Cruachan!
Cruachan!

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For as long as but a hundred of us remain alive, never will we on any conditions be brought under English rule. It is not for glory, nor riches, nor honours that we are fighting, but for freedom — for that alone, which no honest man gives up but with life itself.
From The Declaration of Arbroath 1320.

danno

#14
December 10, 2014, 08:14:28 PM
Quote from: kathyp on December 07, 2014, 11:02:27 AM
every winter is like this and every winter someone notes it.  if it were not for our Australian friends, i don't think we'd have any bee topics in the winter   :-D

OK.  here's some beekeeping stuff...

My hives are still out there and upright!

Its not just this time of year.   I have been here for 8 years now and this has turned into a coffee house with blueboy pushing all your buttons.   

Kathyp

#15
December 10, 2014, 09:20:32 PM
He does that   :-D

you don't have to read it though.  there's still plenty of beekeeping stuff.  
The people the people are the rightful masters of both congresses and courts not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it.

Abraham  Lincoln
Speech in Kansas, December 1859

BlueBee

#16
December 11, 2014, 01:44:53 AM
Buttons?  What buttons?

It's hockey season Danno, my bees are waiting for another Red Wings report.  :)

rdy-b

#17
December 11, 2014, 04:40:38 AM
Quote from: danno on December 10, 2014, 08:14:28 PM
Quote from: kathyp on December 07, 2014, 11:02:27 AM
every winter is like this and every winter someone notes it.  if it were not for our Australian friends, i don't think we'd have any bee topics in the winter   :-D

OK.  here's some beekeeping stuff...

My hives are still out there and upright!

Its not just this time of year.   I have been here for 8 years now and this has turned into a coffee house with blueboy pushing all your buttons.   
get out of the coffe house-start a new pattern--lead dont follow--my man its the winter blues-cali or snow bound states
dont let go of he magic beekeeping gives to use all

rdy-b

#18
December 11, 2014, 05:21:33 AM
Quote from: GSF on December 10, 2014, 01:40:29 PM
The State of Alabama, and probably some other states, are offering grants for first time beekeepers. I don't think it has ran it's course. I'm sure my community doesn't set the national trend, but I know of two new folks who's put in for the grant money and a couple more who's been asking me a lot of questions. Our beekeeping club/association has two or three couples who don't even have bees yet. Truth is, anything new will get old and the interest will fade. I just don't think we're there yet.
YES BAMA has lead fore front in this regard -my hat is off to you and your state-keep posting--the money is a GOD send
but what about the laws that preteen to transport of open comb and bees --that pertain to intestate travel to-- and from state
isn't there a big choke hold on the ability of keepers to hold or transport bees to cali for almond pollination--Its a give and take
if you had enough bees to fill tractor trailer -would your thoughts lean the other way--find out about the laws pertaining to
bees on comb traveling thorough ALABAMA --keep a open mind and remember its most wanted by any hobbyist that they will
some day make a living from bees----its a blessed thing --RDY-B

GSF

#19
December 11, 2014, 06:17:12 AM
If I'm wrong hopefully some of my fellow 'bama beeks will correct me. Here's my understanding of the comb law. Yes, if you're a commercial pollinator you can pull your bees through Alabama. However, if you're out of state and want to sell bees inside Alabama it's packages only,  no comb. Some give that law credit with keeping AFB/EFB at low to almost non existence levels in our state. I'm not versed enough to say one way or the other.
When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you - then you know your nation is doomed.
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