Morning Cup Of Coffee And Weather

Love your yard and hay field, Tour, bees oughta too!

Took a class a few years back but never got started- our town has a limit on backyard hives- a minimum of acres we did not have. And some africanized honeybees that have moved into the area...dont wanna 'bee' that guy!

Nothing like raw honey when you are feeling a little run down.
 
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Tour 931 said:
I think I have the perfect place for it. Lots of bee food around as the previous owner planted flowers and such that attracts birds, bees and butterflies. I did that in Seattle and continue to do it here.
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They pretty much do well in most places. Ironically, inner cities. Except for the pesticides we use :( I know modern farming is reliant on it, but I do question what we're doing to ourselves.

Paris had a problem with collasping hives, they banned pesticides and the honeybee population responded very well, I believe coming back to 'normal' --- sadly corn and other grains are self pollinating, so the farmers don't seem to care about what round-up does to everyone else. I have some friends who grown corn and soy --- and their attitude is cavalier. "Everyone else is doing it, I have too to survive"

I can see their point, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.

Ironically, I started to love for bees right here --- in an old thread about seasoning cast iron with beeswax instead of oil To this day, I keep at least a partially used and one complete pound of beeswax in my kitchen cabinet. Every time I use my cast iron, after washing, I heat it up and give it a quick coat.

I used the beeswax bar and wiped it out with a lint-free towel. After a while, the towel gets so "full" of wax that you just have to wipe it down with the wax soaked towel. Periocially, refreshing with a quick pass of beeswax from the block...

One lb usually lasts a year or two at least. Best tip I've gotten on a camping forum anywhere....ironically, right here....
 
For a little while we thought we were seeing a Camp Inn in the wild we’d never seen & were wondering who it might be & where they were headed. Then we were remembered we are not the only Camp Inn owners in this city. So I texted the other folks and they have a new tow vehicle we didn’t know about it. So yep it was them.

We’ve seen their Camp Inn & we’ve seen two others that are local. We’ve only seen 4 others I believe. Ran into a couple from Santa Fe at the Hubble Trading Post in Arizona. A few days later we we were camped at Bryce and there was one near us for one night in 2016 on that same trip. The other two were both owned by Bear. He was switching from his first one to his second. We were camping at the camping spot at the factory in Necedah in 2022 when he was there.
 
I've only ever seen one other campinn in the 'wild' -- meaning on the highway. I've seen them at the Crossroads Gathering, and of course CICO -- but not much else. I suppose once at Brown County, there was a very old on there....

Whenever I see one, I get the same "excited" feeling—what friend have I yet to meet?!
 
Sweeney said:
I've only ever seen one other campinn in the 'wild' -- meaning on the highway. I've seen them at the Crossroads Gathering, and of course CICO -- but not much else. I suppose once at Brown County, there was a very old on there....

Whenever I see one, I get the same "excited" feeling—what friend have I yet to meet?!
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The one wee saw in Bryce we didn’t get to meet the owner. The day we got there, they were gone all day. Saw them drive in late figured we’d see them the next day. Being from the east coast, we were up really early & went for a sunrise hike. When we got back they had left.

Oh we were excited about seeing it. And even once we knew it was one we had already seen, we still excited.
 
Warren Mary Ellen said:
The one wee saw in Bryce we didn’t get to meet the owner. The day we got there, they were gone all day. Saw them drive in late figured we’d see them the next day. Being from the east coast, we were up really early & went for a sunrise hike. When we got back they had left.

Oh we were excited about seeing it. And even once we knew it was one we had already seen, we still excited.
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We were there, but it was 2015...
 
So much for the perfect So Cal weather that I always brag about. Temps in the 100s the last few days. Very unusual heat wave. Canceled our three day camping trip to El Capitan State Beach campground just north of Santa Barbara. Yes, we So Cal peeps are weather weenies for sure!
 
We're going to head up to the Apostle Islands for a few days since the forecast is calling for highs in the mid 70's and lows in the upper 50's with no rain. We haven't been since about 2005? or so (pre CampInn days anyways), so it's time.
We'll be taking the 'yaks and hope that Gitche Gumee cooperates so we can get to some caves. Should be fun :)
 
Not surprisingly, this abnormal heat wave resulted in two major fires in So Cal. The one in the San Bernardino mountains is threatening two of my favorite campgrounds along the 38 in the Barton Flats area and Green Valley Lake near the 18. Worse than that, it is working its way towards the cities of Running Springs and Big Bear. Praying they get some containment today.
 
Randy said:
Not surprisingly, this abnormal heat wave resulted in two major fires in So Cal. The one in the San Bernardino mountains is threatening two of my favorite campgrounds along the 38 in the Barton Flats area and Green Valley Lake near the 18. Worse than that, it is working its way towards the cities of Running Springs and Big Bear. Praying they get some containment today.
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My wife grew up in nearby Crestline and Lake Arrowhead. We still have family in Redlands. I saw it was 5% contained as of this morning.
 
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