Google is getting crazier and crazier. The new trick is to ask you to connect your posts to Google+. Which sounds fairly innocuous. But if you do, no one can comment on a post without a G+ account.
If this was an "also" thing, I would be OK with it. But it's all or nothing and I don't want that. And it looks to me like they are working hard to force users to coerce other people into using their products. So, this blog is being moved to Wordpress.
Someone else had already used the labyrinthfarm address so I have had to stick a C at the beginning. C for Chuck. C for Cunningham. C for See Labyrinth Farm. Whatever mnemonic works for you.
Anyway, we'll leave this here until Google does something REALLY stupid. With this link to future posts.
http://clabyrinthfarm.wordpress.com
Thursday, May 9, 2013
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Bees out of the box
I'm a little surprised. When I tried peeking in to the hive yesterday, bees were sitting on the box and I didn't see a lot of movement toward the front of the hive. It appears that they got moving when I finally calmed down and left them alone. This morning when I went out to remove the box, they were ALL clustered up at the front and about a quarter of the quart of sugar syrup was gone.
Actual package creation starts at 3 minutes.
It's difficult to take a picture through the plexiglass, but you can kind of tell.
It looks like about 20 didn't make it and considering how they are put in the box, that's pretty impressive.
Actual package creation starts at 3 minutes.
Monday, May 6, 2013
More bees
Monica and Todd of The Carolina Bee Company drove for nearly 24 hours yesterday to bring packaged of bees from Georgia to North Carolina. One of those boxes was for me.
AND it's raining today, which isn't prime bee-handling weather. But, you have to do what you can when you can.
So, I used Monica's no-shake package installation method, waited for a break in the action and went for it. The queen's carriage is dangling between 2 bars that are simply pinching the little strap in place and the box is in the back where bars 11-23 will go when I take it out tomorrow. The quart sized sugar syrup bottle is between the box and the queen. The queen is between the bottle and the entrance.
They are so busy that I can't put the flap down to take a picture, but I think they like it here.
AND it's raining today, which isn't prime bee-handling weather. But, you have to do what you can when you can.
So, I used Monica's no-shake package installation method, waited for a break in the action and went for it. The queen's carriage is dangling between 2 bars that are simply pinching the little strap in place and the box is in the back where bars 11-23 will go when I take it out tomorrow. The quart sized sugar syrup bottle is between the box and the queen. The queen is between the bottle and the entrance.
They are so busy that I can't put the flap down to take a picture, but I think they like it here.
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