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"Dave Davidson, Apiarist" - that sounds kind of risque.

It sounds like the cops are looking for him. -

So, the Guv was an Apiarist?

That must have been after he was a Mujahideen fighter for a brief time.

BraveHeart Dave, will try anything once or for awhile!

I wish I could do it again. I always liked the bees and rarely, very rarely, got stung. However, my Wife is deathly allergic to any kind of sting so it's out of the question.

For the most part, we only had to use gloves and a smoker to work our docile bees. Usually not even gloves. However, you haven't really had an adrenaline rush until you've worked with a bad hive and had an upset bee get inside the veil. Your first inclination is to remove the veil but then the others will get you. You know you're gonna get stung. I never did get used to that. Of course, feeling one crawling up the inside of your pants leg will make you quit the scene and start easing away.

Dave,

My Grandfather kept Bees so we always had honey when I was a kid. The bee keeping Passion didn't pass on to the next generation, however.

Don't you have a shed or two?

i'm sure dave's got sheds, he just refuses to post pics...plain and simple

my dad tells me, that his dad, who i never met (died in 1948) used to also raise bees in the boxes on the same property pictured above, and would handle them w/ no protective gear....he'd roll up his sleeves and go in gloveless, gently scraping the honey, when he was done, he would gently scrape the bees of his arms back onto hives, and he never got stung. i refused to believe it, but my dad always swore it was the truth.

JHAP and his wife will be here in about an hour, we're all going to the county home and garden show, should be a nice day, then a mini pondboss meeting at my place (w/ cocktails of course )

Here's what poor devils like me have that can't afford to build a shed yet.




BTW after paying our taxes I'm not sure I'll ever build a shed!

Dave, let me know when cocktail hour starts and Gail and I will join you ! On second thought, you guys should join us since cocktail hours starts two earlier here (time zone).

Cecil, Looks about like the inside of my junk shed, just missing the walls and roof!

Cecil, did your neighbors pay for the privacy fence?

I have the same kind of stuff leaning up against the outside of sheds.

No they didn't.

I didn't make it messy until I put the fence up.

Actually I plan on hanging everything up as soon as I attach the hangers.

I don't refuse to post. I just never go anywhere with a camera.

I was only a hobby beekeeper and never considered myself any kind of apiarist. I had about 25 hives which I never considered an apiary. For the most part, European bees are gentle. Every now and then a newly installed virgin queen will mate with a rogue drone and have a bunch of mean bees. On those, smoke doesn't help and protective gear is a must. I had only one mean hive. I tried to catch and kill the old queen but finally gave up and built myself a fire. Then dumped the whole works on that fire and no longer got stung.

I used to pull the full frames and bring them to town to extract the honey. I once started on a nice Fall day with a Daughter and son in law as helpers. Not a bee anywhere in the vicinity. By the time I finished there were at least a gazillion. They were so interested in the honey that I never got stung. And, I believe they were wild bees. For the most part, varola mites have killed off most of the wild bees in Texas.

we have the mite problems in CA too, sad.

dang dwight, missed the shout out, sorry, the time just rushed by yesterday and we didnt get to a computer. i was hoping to have time to let JHAP craft some magic for pondboss while looking over his shoulder, but between the home show, feeding fish, talkin smack, and going out to eat, the computer was last on list.

edited post....p.s. make sure to ask JHAP how he liked his fried chicken

cecil, i have a "barn" too. a spot on the other side of property w. a bunch of good stuff laying around...(well good stuff according to me)