Morning Reads – July 4th Eve
The Deep Dark is out getting darker, so I am filling in.
The World’s Game
The women’s national team defeated England yesterday 2 – 1 and move onto the World Cup Final to face the winner between Sweden and the Netherlands. The final will take place this Sunday at 11:00 a.m.
The men’s national team will take on Jamaica tonight at 9:30 p.m. to try to advance to the Gold Cup final.
Math
I was once a Math education major, so we will open with a math puzzle. See if you can make an equation using today’s date. For example: (7+3) + (2*0) = (1+9)
News to Peruse
- Trump raised $105 million in the second fundraising quarter and has $100 million on hand (Augusta Chronicle)
- Lawsuit filed against Georgia for potential discrimination against Puerto Ricans applying for driver’s license (Time)
- Almost 25,000 distracted driving citations issued by Georgia State Patrol in first year of enforcement (AJC)
- S.W. Georgia may still have a lengthy wait for federal disaster aid (AJC)
- The Department of Health and Human Services is looking at five cities, including Atlanta, for shelter space for migrant children (GPB News)
- Gas prices up as holiday approaches (AJC)
- Honey bee deaths could impact agriculture in Middle Georgia (Macon Telegraph)
- Georgia working to become second state to have its own coal ash program (Brunswick News)
About Author
lawtonsack
Lawton is a graduate of Georgia Southern University (the GSU) with a degree in Information Technology. He has held numerous positions within the Georgia Republican Party throughout the years.
Add a Comment
You must be logged in to post a comment.
I started beekeeping this past spring. I have 3 hives. I caught two swarms and bought a package of bees from a place in Taccoa. This time next year I should have about 20-40 pounds of honey. I have been stung about 4 times so far. It’s not bad, you get used to it.
There are lots of hobby beekeepers in Georgia. You can keep bees in a subdivision in Georgia (state law), just make sure they are not where kids and neighbors can be easily stung.
I planted a lot of flowers this past spring and early summer (sunflowers, bee balm, buckwheat, zinnias, etc).
I am amazed at the diversity of pollinators that come to the flowers. All sizes and colors of bumble bees, butterflies, solitary bees, miniature wasps, and moths.
It’s not hard to keep them. It costs about $300 to get started and cheaper if you make your own hives,
Youtube has quite a few videos. Podcasts, websites, and your local beekeeping club are other sources.
UGA has a very good beekeeping program.
https://bees.caes.uga.edu/bees-beekeeping-pollination.html
The thing that really sold beekeeping to me when I first discovered it had to do with how the honey was extracted. The frames containing honey were brought into a special structure that kept the bees outside. The bee-made wax cap covering of the honey-filled comb was cut off and the frame was placed in a centrifuge. Spun off from the comb in the frames, honey would collect in the bottom of the centrifuge and then be drawn off to fill jars and bottles.
As the extraction process was completed, you were left with the messy remains in both the frames and in the centrifuge. How to clean up? You moved all the honey covered equipment outside and took the afternoon off. Meanwhile, the bees would find it and clean it up for you, hauling all the leftover honey back to their colony. Easy!
Now there are hives that don’t even require extraction.
And you can make mead with the leftover honey. Candles with the leftover wax.
My neighbors (I live in the boondocks) tell me they like seeing the honeybees-it helps their apples, peaches, melons, berries, etc. produce more.
They have planted watermelons by me and near me the last two years. It has been interesting to see them bring in bees for pollination and then remove them when it is over. I do not think people truly realize how dire the bee decline is in this nation.
It’s not just Italian honeybees, a lot of insect species are disappearing.
What time does TV coverage of the politburo parade begin tomorrow? That’ll be a good time to be among friends in the community, rather than aggrandizing a narcissistic cult leader.