Watcha doing?

[tango]

Did the first honey harvest over the weekend.  Normally you wouldn’t harvest until mid summer, but the two hives we bought were full from last fall

Only did a partial harvest to leave the bees some food until the spring nectar flow really kicks off here in about 2-3 weeks

Collected, strained, and bottled 54 pounds of beautiful yummy honey!  Oh bother!

Does your honey tend to be dark or light? I really like dark honey, a couple of friends of ours keep bees and I always get dark honeycomb from them when they have it.

Fairly dark.  I like the complexity of the flavors...that really light stuff sometimes just tastes like sugar water.

Sometimes light honey can have a really pleasant floral flavor to it. Other times, as you say, it tastes like sugar and not much else.

I guess a lot depends on what the bees found.

[RabbiKnife]

Did the first honey harvest over the weekend.  Normally you wouldn’t harvest until mid summer, but the two hives we bought were full from last fall

Only did a partial harvest to leave the bees some food until the spring nectar flow really kicks off here in about 2-3 weeks

Collected, strained, and bottled 54 pounds of beautiful yummy honey!  Oh bother!

Does your honey tend to be dark or light? I really like dark honey, a couple of friends of ours keep bees and I always get dark honeycomb from them when they have it.

Fairly dark.  I like the complexity of the flavors...that really light stuff sometimes just tastes like sugar water.

Sometimes light honey can have a really pleasant floral flavor to it. Other times, as you say, it tastes like sugar and not much else.

I guess a lot depends on what the bees found.

Mine will have a hint of beekeeper flavor…

[Athanasius]

Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)

[RabbiKnife]

Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)

Ouch

[IMINXTC]

Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)

Not good! Will be praying.

[Athanasius]

Thanks. I'm on antibiotics, and then... the search for an asthmatic condition starts.

[tango]

Just got back from a 20-hour round trip to London. Did I mention I have a severe lung infection? Flying wasn't fun. (Was for a medical appointment I had booked a year ago.)

Flying isn't fun at the best of times. Hope you can get your infection sorted!

[RabbiKnife]

Thanks. I'm on antibiotics, and then... the search for an asthmatic condition starts.

Just as I suspected.

Cooties.

[Athanasius]

Thanks. I'm on antibiotics, and then... the search for an asthmatic condition starts.

Just as I suspected.

Cooties.

Oh no, that's no good!

[ProDeo]

I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.

Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.

In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.

Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.

Pffffff............

[Athanasius]

I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.

Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.

In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.

Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.

Pffffff............

That's awesome to hear!

[RabbiKnife]

I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.

Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.

In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.

Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.

Pffffff............

Sounds more reliable than a queens gambit…

[IMINXTC]

Everybody goin out & hav'n fun.

[RabbiKnife]

No

Too cold
Too far off the ground
Too great a temptation to start pushing people to see if they can fly

[ProDeo]

I think some of you know that one of my hobbies is computer chess, actually my main hobby since 1980. In 1997 I with others created a computer chess forum hosted by a commercial chess shop who offered to write the software for that. In those days there was no decent forum software.

Long story short, in the last 5 years the forum became under heavy DDoS attacks and the site became an unbearable place to be, many members left. Expensive measures were taken by the shop but did not really help. About 9 months ago the shop informed me they wanted to get rid of the forum.

In an ultimate try I started a crowdfunding among the members to buy the domain name from the shop and move the forum to our own VPS server.

Longer story even shorter, yesterday we managed, the forum now runs smoothly. This after a long period of crowdfunding, the negotiations with the shop (they got $2600), a contract with a new reliable partner to ensure stability for decades and the final touch by 2 qualified people to get the forum software running without any data loss.

Pffffff............

Sounds more reliable than a queens gambit…