Goals for 2014?

[Jen]

Well Lazy.... The wiser women are just as cute as the young farm girls driving those big ole' trucks. And I know why I never see too many of us wiser women on bikes. As the years wane by our backs just couldn't handle the travel anymore, doesn't mean that we aren't just as spunky as we ever were tho. I know a couple that traveled out to Sturgis on their bikes about 10 years ago. They knew it was their last trip when they arrived and it took them half an hour to just get off the bike.

Bucket Lists and Pipe Dreams are so closely related.

Please don't tell me that life's youthful edgy risks have boiled down to lotion.... gawd!

Picture this: Way back in the day hubs and I were pregnant, 1976. He bought an old International Scout to travel back and forth in the snow to the lumber mill in the next town. Winter had faded into a hot summer and I was bigger than a barrel. Hubs took the top and the doors off of the Scout and I would do my errands around town soaking in the sun with my belly pressed up against the steering wheel.
I'm sure you would understand this scene while watching your wife pregnant with Twins.

I learned how to 4wheel drive in that Scout, Shot my first buck in that Scout. But alas, a station wagon replaced the Good Ol' Scout. Kids do that to ya.

We are going to get a butt chew for highjacking Goals for 2014, or Iddee will delete it :\

Back to Bees

[tecumseh]

stock and perhaps either rent or sell 100 boxes.  lot of boxes and frames and lots of paint to splatter around between now and then.

establish a large yard in the tallow area down near Houston.  raise a few more queens than I did last year.

[Perry]

Rent? As in rent out hives, or just the boxes?
I have been approached for wooden ware rather frequently as of late and have taken to building extra to accommodate. The one problem in that picture is having enough frames and foundation on hand, and sitting on the cost of it till it is sold. Not sure how to deal with that. Sitting on a grand watching a few dollars here and there roll in.

[LazyBkpr]

   I build hives, but dont put frames in them Perry. I sell the frames I make if they want foundation-less, otherwise they have to order their frames. Like you, the output is a bit too high for me to keep the frames laying about waiting for an owner. Then theres the problem of not having the right foundation in those frames if they want small cell, large cell, wax etc, etc, etc..  Having half a dozen hives ready isnt that bad, and I try to do that anyhow in case I need them for swarms, cut outs, splits and such.  Hoping to have a dozen EXTRA hives ready before the spring panic kicks in.