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Offline Jen

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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #20 on: July 14, 2014, 11:56:15 pm »
Yankee- "I was in the middle of the strongest flow of the year.  Alfa Alfa mostly.  The bees were pretty much adding 5 LBS of honey to the hive every single day.

    Good Gravy! I can't ever imagine that ~

   
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #21 on: July 15, 2014, 12:06:10 am »
Alfa Alfa?   Alfalfa?  The stuff you make hay with?   Just clarifying...  I get confused easily, I blame my wife...   Somehow the conversation I am having and the one she is having are often concerning different things, and often even different times, or even Centuries....  SO! I am used to being befuddled...
   Got to love it when the flow lasts as long as it has this year.
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #22 on: July 15, 2014, 12:15:39 am »
Alfa Alfa... I was wondering about that too ~ scratching head, speaking of befuddle
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #23 on: July 15, 2014, 02:38:42 am »
Quote from: Jen on July 15, 2014, 12:15:39 am
Alfa Alfa... I was wondering about that too ~ scratching head, speaking of befuddle

I know all about Alfalfa.  That's who I sound like when I sing!   :o

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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #24 on: July 15, 2014, 03:10:40 am »
Sorry about the confusion, English is the fourth language I learned in my life.  Still trying to perfect it.
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #25 on: July 15, 2014, 08:26:04 am »
Quote from: pistolpete on July 15, 2014, 03:10:40 am
Sorry about the confusion, English is the fourth language I learned in my life.  Still trying to perfect it.

   I am green with Envy..  I always wanted to learn German so I could speak with long lost relatives when I eventually go to Germany, and of course Spanish so I can speak the "Normal" language here in the US..
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #26 on: July 15, 2014, 08:40:22 am »
Perfect the English language? Can't be done, unless you come to SW Missouri, we are the Hub of the World. 8) Jack
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #27 on: July 15, 2014, 08:42:49 am »
Quote from: tecumseh on July 14, 2014, 10:45:56 pm
and I need to go looking for 5 gallon food grade buckets.  anyone know where I can purchase 50 at a reasonable price.  walley mart no longer want to give or sell these to customers.  how is my honey crop going?  hope my back holds out to I get it all in the pail.

I do maintenance and repairs at Dairy Queen so  I get most my pails from there. They get their strawberry and whipped topping that is used in the decoration of cakes in close to 5 gallon size. At a busy DQ it is easy for them to go thru 5 buckets of strawberry's a week in the summer. Depending on cake sales the whipped topping buckets can accumulate at about 4 a week. A lot of restaurants feel it is a pain to wash out and save buckets but if you make it worth their while, they will gladly do it for you. Bribe them with a few jars of honey. Or in my case threaten not to fix the things that they break.
I also get 1 gallon size buckets from them also.
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #28 on: July 15, 2014, 08:45:48 pm »
Think nothing of it, pistolpete. English is the only language I speak and I'm still not very good at it.
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #29 on: July 15, 2014, 10:13:52 pm »
Scott- "I always wanted to learn German so I could speak with long lost relatives when I eventually go to Germany, and of course Spanish so I can speak the "Normal" language here in the US..

    If it weren't for the hispanics in California, nothing would get done. I haven't needed to learn spanish yet, cause by the time the immagrants make it FROM Los Angeles to upper northern CA they are fluent at english. And let me tell you, there is a batch of hard working people.
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Re: How's your honey flow?
« Reply #30 on: July 15, 2014, 11:01:30 pm »
Quote from: tecumseh on July 14, 2014, 10:45:56 pm
and I need to go looking for 5 gallon food grade buckets.  anyone know where I can purchase 50 at a reasonable price.  walley mart no longer want to give or sell these to customers.  how is my honey crop going?  hope my back holds out to I get it all in the pail.

I wound up buying mine at Home Depot.  Of course, I didn't need near that many.  :)
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