good morning all

[Phillip Allen]

I've been alternately posting and standing on Sarah's front porch and "feeling" and smelling a fresh gentel spring rain. Wonderful...puts me in a good mood.

[Paul Pless]

morning

[S.V. Airlie]

Yup.. started pretty well. The coffee machine decided to cooperate.

[Phillip Allen]

smells great don't it?

[Phillip Allen]

I got my computer back yesterday...it's over in my shop already hooked up. I intend to use it a lot to watch for problems from the smoke (I've been warned about it)

[S.V. Airlie]

Tastes better too...

[Gresham CA]

Got to work at 7:00, made 2 pots of coffee and now it's time to go to work. Morning all !!!!!!!!!!!!

ps. The pollen is down to dust storm levels here so it's going to be a great day.

[Phillip Allen]

I rarely drink coffee anymore...I think of it as a social lubricant and circumstantial thing...(gotta be in the right place to want it now a days)

[Phillip Allen]

Got to work at 7:00, made 2 pots of coffee and now it's time to go to work. Morning all !!!!!!!!!!!!

ps. The pollen is down to dust storm levels here so it's going to be a great day.

everything here was yellow yesterday...this rain will change that

[S.V. Airlie]

If ya mix water and yellow pollen, squeeze it together and dry it, does one get

" Yellow Cake "?

[George.]

Morning, Phillip.

Today we are getting ready for a long charter (8 days). Today, will change the jib topsail halyard - old "post-stretched" polyester is out, spectra is in (for the standing part). We had it with the excess sag.

[Phillip Allen]

little plugs of bee pollen to reduce the honey capacity of the comb...(you knew that!)

[Paul Pless]

everything here was yellow yesterday...this rain will change that

there's a substantial haze here... hasn't rained in weeks... be nice to have a long gentle rain to come and knock the dust out the air...

[Phillip Allen]

send pics when you can George...

[S.V. Airlie]

Yes I did.. but it is better than getting out honey made from locust.. Damn, turns to sugar in a day. May as well throw the entire frame out.

[Phillip Allen]

maybe this will reach your area Paul...

[Phillip Allen]

the locust doesn't seem to do that here...prolly something else (catalpa) mixed in makes the difference)

[LeeG]

birds sound happy in Annapolis

[S.V. Airlie]

My old farm had a lot of locust. Now I like locust but when they bloomed, the bees hit nothing else. Not that I don't understand.

[Phillip Allen]

one year I placed a deep box full of new foundation on top of a single deep hive...in one week of catalpa/locust bloom it was topped off...60 pounds

[S.V. Airlie]

May be it wasn't the locust. All I know is that when I checked the comb after a locust bloom, could not get the stuff out without a knife. Pure sugar...So, added up one and one and got two! Never had a problem the rest of the year.

[Phillip Allen]

I don't know Jamie...the bees will ignore everything else once something they like appears and somethings seems to sugar sooner than others. People here seem to like locust honey but on the rare occasions when catalpa blooms at a different time I like it. Vetch, hen bit and white clover is good stuff for spring honey. I don't care much for the fall stuff

[paladin]

Damned birds......I got a family of red headed peckerwoods working on 2 dead trees adjacent to my yard.......and the cheering section is a half dozen or so potential targets going "twee chee, twee, chee" with some other idiot asking periodically who, who......and I ain't had my coffee yet, dawg wants to chase wabbitts....bah, humbug....:D