[ocba] ButterFly Bash OCBA Booth - April 18th
Lewis Cauble
lewis at hivebody.com
Mon Apr 13 19:58:37 EDT 2009
David,
Geneva and I would like to hang from 12 to 4.
I picked up the OCBA banner from the cabinet at the extension office
today. Let's figure out how I can get that to you for set up.
Cheers,
Lewis
On Apr 13, 2009, at 7:13 AM, David Langham wrote:
> Hi!
> It looks like Saturday is going to be b-e-a-u-t-i-f-u-l (75 and
> sunny)! What a great day to be at the Museum of Life and Science in
> Durham. The following people have signed up to help.
>
> Lewis Cauble
> Geneva Green
> Jane Flannelly
> John Harrell
> Angie Frizzell
> Pat Jones
> John Wallace
> Chris Laudeman (Sara, Lisa?)
> The Broaddus clan (Scott, Kathleen and Lizzy)
>
> If you did not sign up but want to come, you are more than welcome
> to join in the fun.
>
> What I need from you are the times that you are available to come to
> the museum so that
> 1). We are sure to have good coverage of the booth.
> 2). We have plenty of help for peak hours and cleanup. My guess is
> that peak hours are 11:00 - 4:00. If you want to stay for the whole
> day, please feel free to.
> 3). I would like to give the museum a list of who is coming and
> when so that you can get in free.
>
> Please reply to this email with the times that you can come so that
> everyone can see where we need coverage :).
>
> On Friday afternoon, I will get the gazebo, lots of things to show
> and the bees and take them over to the museum. Daniel Vogel and
> John Harrell have volunteered to help with this. (I will be getting
> with you guys later)
>
> Does anyone know where the OCBA felt banner that we use at the State
> Fair is?
>
> If you have fun things to 'Show and Tell' please bring them with
> you. Connie suggested that I bring some equipment that needs to be
> assembled so we can show that there are may aspects to beekeeping.
> I will bring some frames and foundation.
>
> Beekeeping tip for the day: to prepare the bees, on Thursday
> morning, I will pick a smallish hive (so that it is easy to find the
> queen) and pull a good a couple of example frames of brood nest,
> honey/pollen and the queen. I will put these frames into a nuc and
> put it in a new location. Thursday and Friday morning, many of the
> workers will fly back to their home hive leaving the queen, nurse
> bees and a small number of workers and drones in the nuc. This will
> make the hive very gentle. Thanks to Charles Fleckenstein for this
> beekeeping tip. I did this last year and the bees were great.
>
> If you have any questions, please email or give me a call,
> David
> h - 382-3220
> c - 943-0589
>
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