feeling a bit like the mad hatter!

[LogicalBee]

Still cleaning up some leaves. Need to purchase a couple more wine barrels. Will be planting sunflowers for sure....

I've got a place in the city where they're always giving me citations for violating their grass ordinances.  The ordinance limit is 6" high.  Last year I had ducks swimming in my front yard when they gave me a violation!  Kind of hard to mow when your yard is THAT wet.  They've just lost all sense to reason at City Hall and in response I'm contemplating replacing more grass with sunflowers!  Last year I put a row of 6 footers in the front yard.  I'm debating how I want to express my displeasure this year 

Jen, what kind of sun flowers are you going to plant?  I also tried some of those real low growing ones last year.  Suppose to get to 18".  LOL, mine got to about 8".

[Jen]

Logic- Last year I planted sun seeds from my daugher, they were about the size of a tea cup plate, maybe 6 inches across, yellow. So much fun watching the sunflowers unfold, and the bees love them.

This year I want to plant these:

The Mammoth


And the Autumn Reds

[efmesch]

Logic, the Mad Hatter is a character in the Disney movie, Alice in Wonderland. He is the one with the gray top hat on. Mad is a totally goofy guy 

One can go back a good bit further---the movie was based on the book written by Lewis Carrol (in 1865), Alice's Adventures In Wonderland.  It was passed off as a children's book, but, if I recall correctly, was basically intended as a spoof on British politics of his time.
You can try this link---the book is free, in public domain.  As all the "personalities" in the book, the Mad Hatter was supposed to represent someone.
https://archive.org/details/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland

[Lburou]

Building a horizontal hive for use in queen rearing.  Keeping an eye out for a used AI/II apparatus.  Planning a new bench for the bees in the flood plain down by the river behind the house.

[Slowmodem]

I'm debating how I want to express my displeasure this year 

Run for office and change the ordinance!   

[Slowmodem]

What a beautiful view!

[tefer2]

Looking for a used AI/II.
Lee, you and half the queen breeders in the USA
I have never run across a used setup for sale in all my beekeeping years.
You just don't spend that kind of money for something and then sell it.
If they don't end up using it, they keep it around to show off to their friends. 

Cheapest setup, Dr. Joe Latshaw in Ohio.
http://latshawapiaries.com/index.php?page=latshaw-instrument

[blueblood]

Plan on having a top bar hive build shin dig at my house with meal and fellowship.  Gonna challenge the guys to build their top bars out of scrap lumber including a large amount of old skids.  Would also like to build a few more deeps to get me up to 20 hives from the 15.  But, mostly, would like to concentrate on producing quality or quantity at this time.

[Jen]

That sounds like a Blast! What for dinner? 

[Lburou]

Looking for a used AI/II.
Lee, you and half the queen breeders in the USA.....

I remember seeing one for sale last year.....I just hoped Perry would see that and already have one spotted.  He has his finger on all things bees.  Have been watching for Latshaw's course announcement this year.

[mamapoppybee]

The phrase mad as a hatter came about from when the felt used in hat making was processed with mercury. After prolonged exposure it would possion ones body causing them to go insane. thus is mad as a hatter.

[LogicalBee]

Now that’s interesting, I had no idea.  I’ve learned something new, thanks mammapoppybee.