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Kerry Cox and I made some bee videos yesterday.
First we learn how to light a bee smoker:
What good is learning how to light the bee smoker unless you know how to smoke the bee hives? Here Kerry teaches us how to smoke hives:
Two videos show how he gives a powdered sugar mite treatment:
A natural way to control varroa mite population within a beehive is to combine a screened bottom board a periodic Powdered Sugar treatments. This is completely benign for the bees, in fact, they LOVE licking the sugar off each other!
Next, we take a look at Brace and Burr Comb on a beehive:
Now we look at some hive maintenance and a quick sugar shake for mites:
Finally, we see two videos on how to feed bees:
I’ve seen and heard parents try this “counting” thing to get their kids to do what they want. The point is that if they reach some magic number (it’s normally 3) the kid suffers some form of punishment.
When the kid starts acting up, the parent says, “One,” meaningfully. As if the “one” might be followed by “two,” which they then follow with “three,” at which point something bad happens.
Kids use the counting time to manipulate the situation more than the parents want.
When I hear a parent start re-counting, especially more than once, I know the kid is winning. Out my apartment window, I just hear a mother start re-counting five or six times. “One … two … Jason. Jason. Jason! One … two … Jason! Jason … One ……..! Jason!” How long can you keep that up with your child?
I think that’s what happened to Dee Dee Ramone. His mother must have done the counting thing to him often as a child. He never could seem to count higher than three.
I called Papa John’s to order a pizza just now.
The lady answers and I say I want the $5.99 pizza for pickup. She says OK and asks what topping I want. Half-pepperoni and half-tomato, I replied.
“You can only get pepperoni or cheese,” she informs me.
“I’ll take half pepperoni and half cheese, then.”
She gets my information and then tells me that it’s $6.99 plus tax, and gives me a total over $7.00. We hang up before it registers that I said I wanted the $5.99 pizza and she said the pizza is $6.99.
I call back and talk to a different employee who is new and doesn’t know why I was charged the extra $1.00, so I asked for a manager.
The manager explains that they charge an extra $1.00 for half-pepperoni and half-cheese. “Can you just give me a pepperoni pizza, but only put pepperoni on half of it?”
“No, because the $5.99 pizzas are pre-made.”
So I had to ask him to make sure that information is explained to customers during the calls. It’s not cool to charge me the extra dollar without telling me WHY you’re charging me the extra dollar.
We then cancelled the order and placed one with Round Table. Their coupon is for a 1-topping pizza for $7.99. That’s more money, but they accepted an expired coupon(!), and we got it with half tomato.
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