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Offline THETOOLMAN

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New Guy from GEORGIA
« on: April 18, 2008, 11:21:02 am »
Raised bees in the FFA during high school . That was just before electric lights  :-D I have been bouncing around trying my hand at it again . But need a lot of info. not shure I can make a go of it. IT gets very hot here  :-\
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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2008, 12:14:08 pm »
we have some other folks from your state.  they can probably give you some good ideas for your area.

welcome! 
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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2008, 10:01:29 pm »
Thanks for the welcome I am looking forwards to getting to know y'all

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2008, 11:02:00 pm »
Welcome to the forum.
I'm doak
Where bouts in jawja are you.
I'm here 35 miles north of Macon
Don't feel bad about the heat, I slow down at 85 degrees and completely shut down at 90.
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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2008, 11:06:26 pm »
I second that Georgia welcome! I live in Fort Valley.

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #5 on: April 19, 2008, 08:47:55 pm »
I'm from midland just up from columbus

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2008, 10:19:34 am »
THETOOLMAN.  Welcome to our forum!!!  Cool that you are dabbling in bees again, a most interesting and wonderfully great thing to be involved in, as you already know.  YOu will have questions, ask them here, all questions will get great answers and all questions are good ones, never consider a question not worthy of a response, so not true.

Tell us a little more about yourself, we are a nosey (I am for sure) and a curious bunch of people.  You will make new friends here, it is like a family, we care, and I speak for all of us.  Have a wonderful, most beautiful day, Cindi
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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2008, 01:07:31 pm »
Welcome TheToolMan, brings thoughts of Tim Allen.  I did bees in FFA also.  Spent most of a Summer in Fort Gordon suffering from heatstroke.  Thing I learned about Georgia was why Waycross is called that--seems from Augusta you have to go waycross Georgia to get there.
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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2008, 08:31:22 pm »
Welcome Toolman,
We are from South Central Alabama, but we have a daughter near you out from Columbus at Geneva, Ga

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2008, 09:45:42 pm »
wow, ya'll are every where. I really was wondering about it being to hot & humid here for bees I really need some . does your daughter in geneva have any? thats only 25 miles from here!

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2008, 09:59:46 pm »
Not yet but we're hoping to get her started soon.  She is a pediatric intensive care nurse and he works as salesman/shop foreman at a large outdoor equipment dealership and owns and operates a 16 yard dump truck.  They have a great place for bees.  They own 35 acres out in the county in the middle of a 10,000 acre forestry area.

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #11 on: April 23, 2008, 06:16:44 pm »
HAB
sounds like we might start up At the same time!

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2008, 08:36:24 pm »
Forgot you were concerned about the heat.  Here the heat is even worse.  We get about an average daily temp of about 2 degrees higher than yours.  The worst part is the humidity.  We catch all the humidity coming up from the Gulf but none of it's cooling effect.  Just put them where they get early am sun, mid day shade, afternoon partial shade.  Here the local Beeks like to put them under a Red Oak, it gives just the right shade, drops its leaves early in the fall, and doesn't shed to many limbs. :)

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Re: New Guy from GEORGIA
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2008, 09:37:23 pm »
Welcome, THE TOOLMAN, I'm in Atlanta and there are many, many beekeepers here keeping bees in urban bliss!

Good luck and welcome,

Linda T in Atlanta

 

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