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  • From: Lewis Cauble <lewis AT hivebody.com>
  • To: David Langham <david_langham AT hotmail.com>
  • Cc: Ulrich Hartmond <ulrich.hartmond AT ncmls.org>, ocba listserv <ocba AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [ocba] ButterFly Bash OCBA Booth - April 18th
  • Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:58:37 -0400

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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