Its that time of the year again … when all the fruit trees start to bear and the garden is full of produce. Everything is about a month or more ahead of normal. Right …..this weekend we are harvesting “Prima” apples (an american variety from the 1950’s) and “Egremont Russet” (an 1870s apple). Both are…
Author: Scott
Go Quinn
Happy Birthday lad from the whole antipodean team. Sam, Scott, Leigh, Calgary and the Ducks
Solar Bees Wax Melter
For Terry …. my home-made solar wax melter. It works well melting the wax out of old frames, queen excluders and the like. It does need a better collection systemas the wax just pools inside right now …. another winter project. See pictures at http://squids.ca/gallery/wax-melter
Forest face
When the package arrived from USA marked “Glow in the Dark FF” we spent some time trying to guess what the FF might stand for. We were NOT even close. On CHristmas we opened it up .. the first impression was that it looked like hard bits of dog poo nestled in styrofoam. On closer…
South Island Ramble
Leigh and I have just returned from a 1379 km ramble around the geocaches between Nelson, Christchurch, Reefton and home. We headed down to CHCH to drop off Sam and load of gear for his flat next year. Sam continued down south to work on his father’s vinyard (and earn some dosh) and Leigh and…