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Rant From The Past: The Bee Geek Learns a Lesson

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This is kinda funny.  It’s a post I wrote a year and a half ago, but I never published.  Sounds like I’d had a lot of coffee that day.

This weekend, my son’s most excellent elementary school had their annual Harvest Festival.  This year, I was asked to MC the booth on mason [...]

Drilling Mason Bee Blocks

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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 [...]

The PNW Planting Calendar and My Lie

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First, my lie. I said that I had come up with a patented, super creative way of making my mason bee blocks, but lo and behold: this Randy Person beat me to it. Yes, his name is Randy Person.

Now, take note that he has explicitly copyrighted the whole design.  You may contact [...]

Honey Bees: The Beginning

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Oh, lord, now I’ve done it.

As if the buying the yard in spite of the crappy, falling apart, remodeled-by-hippies house so I could grow stuff wasn’t bad enough… and as though it’s not enough hassle to take care of those stupid chickens…  I had to have bees.

I started with my little [...]

Mason Bee Block Design 2009

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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 [...]