Oh no! Those mites are doing lots of damage everywhere, sorry to hear about your lost hives
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Yep. It sucked like a souped up Kirby vacuum cleaner but we’ll get back up and going. I dang near decided to give it up but people need to run hives if at all possible. So many folks , like you said, have lost their hives. Most of the pollination that our fruit trees got were from bumblebees this year.
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I won’t plan a trip Johnny.
When I Win a Trip with the Biggest Frankenstein… thats a different story.
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Went out to the barn for a bit, come back to a few posts but can’t do any likes! lol So here yas go!
@herojuana.tom 
@MoBilly @crownpoodle @MissinBissin
Mo, I only wish i could have bees, we both love honey. But Rose is allergic to stinging, swells up like Martin Short in that movie with Danny Glover, Pure Luck!
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Paratrooper’s came in to save the day.The aphid’s really love Frankies Sweet nectar and were becoming a small nuisance then day by day more and more ladybugs came in and i have gone through her high and low not a single aphid they or even an egg i cant find not one.They cleaned house and I guess love was in the air and i had ladybugs banging all over Frankie they have since dispersed and have migrated throughout the garden patch devouring everything in site i even see then patrolling the dirt and harass the dirt gnats i cant find a spider mite to as much as a damn dirt gnat thier like a vacuum of death for soft bodies.Filling out more by the day.The Malted barley with those Brut ECW have brought out a fierceness that is quite entertaining the Foxtails are thick and popping up heavily Shes blowing out sideways havent gone up any more really but im happy as shit with almost 9 feet im not greedy and i know she will pay out.The barley really bringing the frost out.Lets see how she deals with the cooler weather.Been getting in the lower 50s here and the cold has brought the swell on
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Hell yeah, lol looking super-Delicious there, cuz!
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man I am sad to hear about the bees, I hadn’t heard much in the news so thought the mite problem was a thing of the past. we have a beekeeper group around here but there isn’t many members. cool hobby and helps nature, may look into that once I retire
good evening all
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Had to throw some stakes in there She likes to throw all the weight twords the tippy tops and taper the weight down leaving some nice branch space for air movement i can see the tops sway like church bells from the weight i used some good stretchy bamboo and ran it up the trunk to the side of the main kola and some of the heavy side branches the TPS bud builder and hardener is adding a shitton of weight that just comes out in spurts
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I’m calling it a day, cyas good folks in the morning light!
Rest easy e1.
Good Night OG!
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I’m with you @JohnnyPotseed
I just got in from band practice. Long night and had to deal with a flat tire.
Bedtime bro
Sleep well
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Good morning @JohnnyPotseed and crew
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Good morning Johnny, good morning @buck90. Happy Friday everyone, long weekend and I’m off next week for the last blast of summer. You can feel it in the air.
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Morning @buck90 and @Greenfingers and all others of the 3ring circus 
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Good morning fine gents!
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Good Morning OG!
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lol wrong post
Good morning OG 
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Morning, errybuddy. Good to be alive. Have a great day, boys and girls.
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lol ‘great day’? I gotta spend the morning in a teleconference with tax lawyer/accountant firm! This is gonna be ‘fun’… NOT! But sure hope we can get to some kinda resolution, at least. lol
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Fingers (and everything else) crossed for you, Bro…GOOD LUCK!! SS/BW…mister 
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