MAY
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5/31/2011
Sawing the granite was a job... Counter laid out for test spacing then I raise the granite.
That is it for May.
Promise of Spring today but we are weeks late.
More rain, I have had enough, but the potato's like it.
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5/30/2011
Got the Freeze dried stuff Put up in the pantry.
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5/29/2011
Testing the new horn.
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5/28/2011
Horn for the xtal set.
Back is wood and front is paper shopping bags cut in strips and soaked in wood glue.
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5/27/2011
So Sour dough works in in the fridge.... Whole wheat bread!
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5/26/2011
More shelves.
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5/25/2011
Make over for the shears, red for Kate and green for Erin.
Waiting for someone to bring breakfast. This one can not remember where he left the wife and kids.
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5/24/2011
Happy Birthday Mom.
More plants for the garden.
Rise 5 hours in the basket, Bake in dutch oven...
Into the basket for about 4 hours then bake.
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5/23/2011
Choosing what to use for the Poilane.
After 12 hours in the Fridge, and 12 to go, it has doubled.
A homemade whisk strong enough for dough.
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5/22/2011
Six hours on the mower.
The grass was tall.
Compost around the grapes.
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5/21/2011
New roof and strapped down, all clean inside for the Coalinga girls, only 200 or so left.
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5/20/2011
Cleaned the retirement Bee home for the queen less girls from Coalinga. Replaced the travel screen with top bars. Cleaned
the junk from the box they were shipped in from the bottom of the hive and took out the queen cages. Cleaned them up and took candy from each
and remelted it and filled the cage on the right's exit tube. They pop open to fill with queen and snap shut.
Six bees at the door of the trap. All 4 traps had similar activity.
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5/19/2011
Bee Hive on the left is retirement home for Coalinga Bees.
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5/18/2011
PTA
David's 4th grade got a rope class, whether they wanted it or not.
Bee and Queen check, No queen, 300 bees or so will travel to Oregon to live in a retirement home.
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5/17/2011
Bougainvillea
Helped Damon print on his new press. Test proof.
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5/16/2011
Work in progress....
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5/15/2011
Toast says "Thanks for my Seat" in cat talk.
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5/14/2011
Lessons in etiquette. Dinner.
Mud Oven Wine Tasting
So Sharon's cat can sit in the window. Damon's new Proof Press.
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5/13/2011
Lots of activity. Maybe working, maybe raiders?
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5/12/2011
Been a hard day, drove 200 miles, made a bee hive and bee suit and opened the box of bees to see if queens were alive.
I do not believe so, but I really could not see well enough. I opened 3 queen cases and there may have been one alive, big maybe we
will let them be to themselves for a week. We will see.
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5/11/2010
So we drive all day and what do we find in the parking lot, full of bees with the queen opened to let them out.
So I got the tape from my hasty bag, waited till dark closed the lid and taped it shut. No veil, no gloves no shit!
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May 10, 2011
Happy Birthday Dad, he would have been 91
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5/8/2011
Happy Mother's Day
Helen Marge
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5/7/2011
No Kodak Moment
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5/6/2011
Rosin Bar home made from pitch. Bed fellow from last night, about 3 inches long Moth
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5/5/2011
Hiding under a burning brush pile is not a good idea.
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5/4/2011
Prepared the garden beds with compost and dolomite and fertilizer.
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5/3/2011
ABC of Bee Culture, 1913 edition of a 1877 Book came today. Wild flowers in the backyard.
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5/2/2011
April showers bring the May flowers.
They still work. 2 from each.
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5/1/2011
May DAY
Morels, for the finding.
Bed Ready For May 1st, and first night outside. Yes of course we made this for you.
Griswold No. 10 Erie, PA U.S.A. 948
Sharon's cast iron muffin pan. After 1 hour under the sand blaster.