What Did You Do Today?

[PaulN/KS]

When Eric started his gizmo donations on TG there was some heated bidding on them. I was lucky enough to win one and it's proudly displayed in my shop.
Thanks for your handy invention as well as for your help in a good cause Eric. 

[DC]

It's nice to hear that there are that many. I joined the local archery club(I'm not a joiner) to see if I could find any like minded locals and quit after two years with no luck. I know of maybe a half dozen on the Island. I'm a bit of a hermit so that may have something to do with it

[Eric Krewson]

Gonna' be bee trap making day, I got a doug fir 4x4 at Home Depot (good arrow wood) and will start making traps today. I will keep a few and give the rest away.

[WhistlingBadger]

Do those trap honey bees or mason bees?

[BowEd]

Those are carpenter bee traps.The wood eating kind of bee.Nice version of one too Eric.
Here's my version.Made from scrap pieces of lumber laying around.I've got 6 on the house.They'll catch at least a dozen in each trap through out the summer.Knock on wood...a bee has not eaten a hole into anywhere on my house for years and years.They get attatched onto the corners of a house.They do the job.
It's a half inch hole drilled upwards at an angle.3 holes.1 on each side of wooden box.Bees get tired of trying to get out and fall to the bottom.

[Eric Krewson]

Here is my earlier version, lots of nailing, I used a gatorade bottle and would catch up to 25 in one trap.  I gave these away to make the new ones that all match. I cut 14 trap blanks out of the 4X4 in the picture.

I pick up an occasional honey bee that I let go but mostly catch carpenter bees.

[Eric Krewson]

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[WhistlingBadger]

So you're catching them to keep them from eating your house, eh?  I have to use a lot of yellowjacket traps around here.  Yellowjackets serve an important ecological role, but they are JERKS!  And they eat my berries.

[Pat B]

The Shepherd/Akita we used to have would sit on the porch and catch and eat 10 or more yellowjackets a day during the warm weather and more in the early fall. I guess she loved spicy food.

[EdwardS]

Pat I'm cleaning popcorn off my laptop because of that one.  Good thing it wasn't chewed popcorn.

Did this dog come home stung up or what?  Every dog I've seen tangle with yellow jackets got stung about the muzzle.

Had a dog that brought home a half-dead rattlesnake one time.  Thought he'd die from the bites, fell asleep, slept a day, and was good as new.  That dog was made of cast iron and contrariness.  I miss him.

[Pat B]

No, Sister just like eating them. She'd curl her lips and chomp the yellowjacket right out of the air, swallow it and look for another. She didn't go after nests. We have bears and skunks that do that.

[WhistlingBadger]

We decided to shoot in our Scottish garb.

[Eric Krewson]

I always have a winter greens patch, it always is full of new growth kale and collards just about the I start thinking about my summer garden. We have had more rain this winter and spring than we usually get. I can count on a rain every few days and sometimes for a whole week.

It is difficult for me to put those great greens in the ground, I have the freezer stocked and have picked all I want to, both for me and to give away.

Even though it was very wet I decided to till my garden anyway. It looks like we are going to have 5 rare days of sunshine so I will let the top dry one day and til lit up again the next so it won't be such of a mud hole.

I plant through black plastic so it doesn't have to be perfect. I have to have an electric fence around my garden to keep the deer out, I made the ends like a giant gate so I can till end to end and leave the rest of the fence up.

[YosemiteBen]

Recently got "clearance" to work three days a week doing out of doors work only, NO office time. Re-shaking a roof. Cutting trees. Cleaning up my out door space at work.  I am not tech savvy to post pics.... Honey-do list on the days I am not working. Some days I feel like I make my father sad because I do not seem to have the "drive" he does when it comes to getting in a "day's" work!

My wife's idea of spending time with her is not necessarily "working". Trying to find some sort of "balance" in all of it.

Many thanks to all of you for your "hobbies" and life's work that make the world go 'round!

Yosemite Ben!

[BowEd]

Made a raspberry cheese cake pie for Robin and bought us a steak dinner.It's her birthday.