August

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8/31/2011
truck
After serving me for 31 years the white truck goes to scrap yard for 306 dollars.
pathway peaches
Finished the power line path.                                                 Picked the peaches at my house.
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8/30/2011
Veggies
Worked in the garden today.
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8/29/2011
little car port
I fell off the ladder.  It hurt.
little car port
Finished now.
glasses
I do not believe the glasses should be bent like this.  They look better than my head and back and shoulder.
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8/28/2011
green house
Cleaned the green house.
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8/27/2011
yardsale
Finished.
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8/26/2011
stove test stove test
Testing the can stove without the fan 16 oz of water at 62º  took 12 minutes and 110 grams of fuel.  Add the fan with same water and fuel.
stove test
Boil time was 7 minutes and 90 grams of fuel.  Fun but I don't think it is worth it.
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8/25/2011
Cantalope
Breakfast in the garden.
Cherry Tomato
Now they are ripe.
Garage Sale
Re-Sort and touch every single thing in the Last Chance Yard Sale.
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8/24/2011
Capper Veggies
Capper cleaned for Sharon.                                                        More Vegggies drying.
sign
Put up signs so I can remember its HOT!
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8/23/2011
Buzz Bulb
Now the Bees have light and sound protection. Motion Detector and Light and 100 db of siren.
Hope and Allen clean
Clean for Sharon
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8/22/2011
Dipole
Repaired Dipole
Vegies
Picked veggies this morning
Tank house
Set the site for the tank house.
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8/21/2011
Brood with queen
I was wrong on the 13th when I said I had no queen.
Brood in the center and the Queen upper middle with abdomen pointing toward 11:00 o'clock.  Capped honey on the bottom.
Brood
Again brood in the middle and capped honey on the bottom.  Bulging yellow caps on brood and white flat caps on the honey.
Brood
First guess is the brood is 1200 strong now. 
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8/20/2011
Electric fence
Electric fence is working now, 1650 feet in 3 wires hot, and two gates hot.
beetle
Striped
tomato
First Tomatoes
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8/19/2011
Electric Fence
Installed 154 stand off insulators for the Electric Fence.
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8/18/2011
Bee
Bee working.  Resting my knee today.
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8/17/2011
Eggplant
Those are 2x6 in the deck, and very nice Dusky Eggplant, we have had that many already and many more to come.  Breaded Eggplant tonight!
clippers weed wacking
Cleaned, sharpened and repaired 8 clippers.   Dennis worked on the firebreak.
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8/16/2011
dried lumber
Deja Vu,  more squash and more lumber.
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8/15/2011
lumber firewood
Out of some of the scrap that was in the trailer I made over 100 board feet and some fire wood for the shop.
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8/14/2011
Lumber
All cleaned up.  The slash that will be fire wood is moved and the trash went to the burn pile.
Timber Timber3
4 x 10 Timber 16' 6" long close to 500 lb.
Timber timber
Balance its all about balance.
timber timber
So the Doc says " Do you exercise regularly? "  Uh no. You mean like lift weights and stuff?
timber wood
Very nice beams.  This was trash and I will get another couple of hundred board feet out of it by careful cutting.
sting
No need for Botox to remove wrinkles we have bees.
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8/13/2011
No Queen
Click on picture.  No Queen. No brood. Just honey and pollen.  12 days.
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8/12/2011
Lumber Lumber
Day two.  Finish up on the logs. 
Fire wood
Fire wood.
Lumber
End view of some of the wood.  Random width, mostly 3/4 thick.
Lumber
10, 12, 14, and 16 foot lengths. 1x3 for bats.  1x 6 through 1x10 for boards.  Over 1200 board feet.  Enough for a wall 10 ft high by 120 ft.
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8/11/2011
Stairs Stairs
Remember in June when I started the floor under the shed.
stairs
So now the steel girder is gone and the building is set back the was it should be.  Ready for stuff to go under it!
Lumber
OK that sounds good to me.
Lumber
Really pretty wood. Going to be a tank house.
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8/10/2011
pad
A clean spot for the little car to live.  When the little car is not here, then it is "The western beer garden" for Dennis.
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8/9/2011
saw
Cleaned and sharpened a 52 inch saw for a trip into a downed forest.
saw saw
Sharpened with a file and set by hand.  Proof is in the cutting, two people and all you do is pull.
art bee
My favorite, a matched pair.  One of the girls immersed in her job.
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8/8/2011
Fridge fridge
New Fridge.
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8/7/2011
Sink3
Got the sink and water back in the glaze shop.
veg
74 pounds of squash reduced to 7 pounds.
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8/6/2011
shelf
Four levels.  Three shelves, three sides.  Those are 7 gallon buckets.
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8/5/2011
Shelf
One shelf, on three walls, two more to go.
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8/4/2011
floor floor
One bucket of cement to 12 shovels of sand and gravel.
floor floor
The dolly can roll under the building.
floor floor
Mix and mix some more.
floor floor
The Fun part, you can see the delivery, on my belly.
floor floor
Little by little.
floor floor
Float first.
floor floor
Getting closer.
floor floor
Screeding
floor floor
Filled
floor floor
Finish.  Still 4000 lb. of sand and gravel on the truck.
floor3
Done for a while.
floor
Clean off the truck.
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8/3/2011
New Queen
So after 40 hours I could not wait any longer,  I opened the queen case and let her out into the hive.
She had many attendants, not many eating the candy out, only halfway there.  I was worried about the heat.
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8/2/2011
Vegies
74 pounds of Squash
Vegies
Shooting out of the cutter, just a blur.
Vegies
Zucchini, Summer Squash (yellow and green) and Crookneck.  All cut.
Vegies
Now we let the sun do it's work.
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8/1/2011

port  port
There is a fir tree in there that has to come out.
port port
So limbs come off, then the top without hitting the roof.
port port
Now to put it out the hole without hitting the roof. 
port port
Now to move it to the log deck.

Top Bar Hive bees
Top Bar hive early in the morning.  Opening up after the first month for a check.
bees  bees
These two combs look untouched from last month.
bees bees
Two combs full of honey. No brood.
bees bees
Note the zip ties, this was old comb used to attract the bees in the trap and they have secured the comb.  Two more full of honey, no brood.
bees  bees
Two more combs, more honey and no sign of brood.  Looks like we lost the queen some how.  The number of bees seems down as well.
bees
After the inspection you can see they are not upset at all.  Just me.
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Happy Birthday Mom!
MOM
She loved to fish.