What did you accomplish today?
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manfredo
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Got about a 14 mile Street ride on the bicycle today. I cruised past the castle. This was the first public hospital in the US to treat alcoholism built in 1864. It's it's way up on top of a mountain and it's a b**** of a ride, unless you have an electric motor, LOL
Oh my that has quite the history.
raratt
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I'll drink to that.
DarkWeb
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Cheers
manfredo
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Apparently they use to treat alcoholism similar to insanity...If you drank too much, they might ship you off here...forever.
I havn't met anyone who even knew what a loquat was, we used to have a tree in the yard in S Fla.
Make some jam - I'd love to taste that again.
Newb2indoor
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Bees will travel up to three miles away for food. I’ve never tried rosemary honey but I bet it’s great.
Mohican
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My wife's Grandmother was in the Worcester MA Odd Fellows retirement home. Next door was the original building. I wish I had taken photos. They tore it down in 2014. It is also built at the top of a hill.
Was perfect for a Stephen King novel.
The Romanesque Revival style Odd Fellows Home was opened in 1892 to serve as a home for aged members of the fraternal order. A 1902 Classical Revival wing expanded the building’s capacity. Sited on a hilltop overlooking Worcester, the Odd Fellows Home provided sweeping views of the city for its residents. A much-loved local landmark, the building’s five-story clock tower was visible from around the city. One of a number of hospitals and institutions built on the outskirts of Worcester at the end of the 19th century, the Odd Fellows Home occupied this grand building for nearly 100 years until the organization opened a modern facility next door in 1990. After a portion of the building served as a church for a few years, the building was left vacant and deteriorated from a lack of maintenance. The current owner purchased the Odd Fellows Home with the intent to demolish the building and replace it with a single-story nursing home. The demolition was completed during July and August of 2014.
Cheers,
Mo
Was perfect for a Stephen King novel.
The Romanesque Revival style Odd Fellows Home was opened in 1892 to serve as a home for aged members of the fraternal order. A 1902 Classical Revival wing expanded the building’s capacity. Sited on a hilltop overlooking Worcester, the Odd Fellows Home provided sweeping views of the city for its residents. A much-loved local landmark, the building’s five-story clock tower was visible from around the city. One of a number of hospitals and institutions built on the outskirts of Worcester at the end of the 19th century, the Odd Fellows Home occupied this grand building for nearly 100 years until the organization opened a modern facility next door in 1990. After a portion of the building served as a church for a few years, the building was left vacant and deteriorated from a lack of maintenance. The current owner purchased the Odd Fellows Home with the intent to demolish the building and replace it with a single-story nursing home. The demolition was completed during July and August of 2014.
Cheers,
Mo
Newb2indoor
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Thanks everyone for growing stuff to feed the bees. They appreciate it! dandelions are usually the first food they will get after winter. So let those dandelions grow in your lawn.
Newb2indoor
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That’s a really pretty building. We don’t make them like that anymore.
I'm really keeping them in business with my dandelions.
raratt
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You can use the leaves in salad. My wife's grandpa used to eat them all the time.
Newb2indoor
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Awesome. It really helps. Dandelions are usually out a few weeks before most other flowers. I like to think of my lawn is a bee buffet it’s all clover and dandelions LOL.
lokie
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We got to tour the apiaries on Kangaroo Island Australia.
The island is home to the world's purest strain of Ligurian honey bees, which originally came from Italy. Apiary Alliance SA chairman Danny LeFeuvre said Kangaroo Island was a "bee utopia" because they mostly fed on native flora and were free of most diseases.
Because of the island's isolation, absence of indigenous bee species, and ample flowers, the Ligurian bees thrived without the disease or interbreeding that normally plagues apiaries. Now, the bees on Kangaroo Island are believed to be the world's last remaining population of purebred Ligurian bees.
The recent Aussie fires did extensive damage.
46% of the island was burnt. The bushfire event was ignited by lightning strikes on 20 December, which started the Duncan and Menzies fires, followed by more lightning strikes on 30 December, which started the Ravine fire.
5 to 10 years is the estimate for the Ligurian honey bee industry to fully recover.
Newb2indoor
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That is super interesting. I’ve never heard of this. Wow. Bees are fighters and so resourceful. They will recover. I encourage everyone here to get bees if you have the room we need more beekeepers. You all can take care of weed, well bees are way way easier. It’s so rewarding too when they have enough honey that you can take a little.
raratt
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Been cleaning the outside of the stove. I pulled it out a little to get some of the slime that has fallen between the counter and stove also. I didn't want to give a greasy stove to someone. It's about as clean as it will get, they can clean the inside themselves. The lady I'm giving it to sent a pic of her oven with a broken door. She has been getting by using a microwave.
Found a dude to repair an old tube guitar amp I have. He said in working order it would be worth $12-$1400. Glad I drug it around everywhere we went.
Pork chops and steamed asparagus for dinner, buds and suds in progress.
Found a dude to repair an old tube guitar amp I have. He said in working order it would be worth $12-$1400. Glad I drug it around everywhere we went.
Pork chops and steamed asparagus for dinner, buds and suds in progress.
Metasynth
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That’s what I did with it last year. Personally, I like better in a grapefruit loquat marmalade. Yummers!
manfredo
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It really is amazing...Isaac Perry was the architect, and he designed many treasures around this area.
Isaac G. Perry - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
manfredo
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I remember when y9ounger one of my friends snatched a bottle of dandelion wine from somewhere that was tasty....and my neighbor kept bees, and made honey wine. Mead he called it...really tasty and sweet, but I like sweet wines.