I’ll have to say, I was a bit stressed, getting started on this project. But, the temp hit 60-degrees, and I needed to move the bees from their temporary nuc/cardboard travel boxes to their new hives. Process: Working quickly, the process took about 5 minutes each hive. Per guidance, I didn’t take the time to…
Category: DIY
Day 1. We have bees!! 4/15/16
I purchased 2 nucs to start. The bees came from Oregon, I picked them up from Bees in the Burbs in Maple Valley on 4/15 10am. When I drove them home to Bellevue it was about 55-degrees outside. To try to keep them cool while driving home I opened the sunroof and back windows and…
Bee Calendar 2016
Jan Ordered my nucs. Beekeeping 101 class at Bees in the Burbs. Really fun to be around folks who want to play with bugs! Feb Beekeeping 201 class at Bees in the Burbs. For this one, suggestion to keep good logs of everything. Here at the Jons Glenn Farm, with a little help from my…
Transition to Reconstruction
After a couple long days working in the barn this weekend, I’m nearing the transition point from disassembly to reconstruction. I removed the remaining interior stall walls, and also a couple non-supporting posts to make room for maneuvering the big glulam beams into place. Boy was that fun moving the beams from outside where they…
Barn Conversion – Disassembly
In my previous post about the firewood “lean-to”, I mentioned our project to convert several stalls in the barn to a garage for the old truck. It took a while to make the final commitment to do the project, but we’re off and going. I told Inga when I started to disassemble the interior stalls,…
Starter Improvise Repair
I was having problems with the starter not maintaining engagement with the flywheel. It seemed to be especially bad when the engine was warm. My dad said it’s probably the Bendix spring, so I ordered a new one on my favorite auto parts site, RockAuto.com. When I took the starter apart, I discovered there where…
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