Just a short note that, while I was in the kitchen making hot fudge sauce, wifey casually said “you know your bees are coming out?”
Uh, no, I did not.
Indeed, the little buggers had started exiting their cocoons right there in the fridge. I opened up the paper towel, and there were 4-5 of them [...]

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The not-at-all-dumb Paul asks:
“Here’s a really dumb question. How did you drill your holes? Did you use a drill press? If so, how did you get it to go all the way through? I tried making one today and the press would only drop down about 3″. So, I bought a long bit and have [...]

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OK, I decided.  I’m going to go with two routes: drilled through blocks and a big, ol’ piece of PVC stuffed with straws.  Why two?  Erm… cuz… three would be too many!
OK, today I’ll show you how my patented drill-through-rolled-liner (DTRL) idea works.  Last year, I tried a similar thing, but for some odd reason [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day, if you’re into that kind of thing.
As my three faithful readers may know, I am obsessed with mason bees (Osmia lignaria).  Honey bees and bumble bees are also quite awesome, but the mason bee I find particularly interesting because:

It’s native.  Whoo-hoo!  There’s something native to somewhere still!
They don’t sting.  I don’t know, [...]

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Mostly ripping out the garden these days… tho, I’ve been putting in bamboo floors and painting in the shack.
Anyway, today, after days and days of rain, was beautiful.  We all went down to the duck pond.
The geese filled the sky.
And this kid filled the geese.

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