Friday it was our pleasure to learn something new about bees. Aaron's dad Farmer Boyd ,his brother in law, and his uncle have recently become bee keepers. It is actually one of the coolest hobbies that I have ever heard of. Between the the three of them they have about 9 hives which produce quite a bit of honey. I have heard that honey produced in your locale can be very effective at reducing allergy symptoms because of the amount of pollen that it contains from your area. It is like an immunization in that it gives your body an idea of what it's up against and helpes it adjust. It is the Adrian to your Rocky II.
Beehives
So the beehives are pretty cool. Not your great great grandpa's bee hives either, they are to of the line new school ones that don't look like a pile of rope that I feel the primal urge to grope. They are high quality "bee dressers" with drawer like slats that they can build honey on. So thats the new school stuff; we can now move on to the "future-school" stuff.
To extract the honey, eager bee keepers stole a large stainless steel centerfuge that would have housed 8 Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station. Originally designed to allow velcro clad space men to jog like the guys on 2001: A Space Odyssey, the canister is also very good at spinning the honey right out of the honeycomb. Very cool.
Farmer Boyd and the Space Can
To extract the honey, eager bee keepers stole a large stainless steel centerfuge that would have housed 8 Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station. Originally designed to allow velcro clad space men to jog like the guys on 2001: A Space Odyssey, the canister is also very good at spinning the honey right out of the honeycomb. Very cool.
Farmer Boyd and the Space Can
Saturday was a good time. Started out in the morning by heading up to Springville Canyon where Natalie's family was camping as part of the Davis family reunion. By way of background, my wife is a descendant of a certain Davis family through her mother's side. The original Davis's
had quite a few children- 12 or so if I remember correctly. Natalie is in the third generation and all of the generations make up about 740 descendants, a good chunk of which attend an annual Davis family campout. Fun times.
Anyways, we headed up in the morning and I went on my first road bike ride of the summer with Natalie's uncle and two cousins. It was a blast and I took a picture of my bike at the top.
Later in the day we decided to take a break from Davis Family festivities and head out of the canyon for lunch and to run some errands. We decided to have lunch at L&L Hawaiian BBQ which was great. I got Spam Musubi which for those of you who may not know is just Spam sushi. MMMMMMM.
had quite a few children- 12 or so if I remember correctly. Natalie is in the third generation and all of the generations make up about 740 descendants, a good chunk of which attend an annual Davis family campout. Fun times.
Anyways, we headed up in the morning and I went on my first road bike ride of the summer with Natalie's uncle and two cousins. It was a blast and I took a picture of my bike at the top.
Later in the day we decided to take a break from Davis Family festivities and head out of the canyon for lunch and to run some errands. We decided to have lunch at L&L Hawaiian BBQ which was great. I got Spam Musubi which for those of you who may not know is just Spam sushi. MMMMMMM.
Spam Musubi
Later we went to Salt Lake to visit the Hales who are on my side of the family who are some of my favorite people in the world and after that we headed back to Utah County where I destroyed my heel at the skatepark by bruising it really bad. After that, we decided to camp out with the family in our car so we loaded all of our earthy belongings (not really though), several bratwursts and headed back to the Davis gathering.
It was really fun because our car turns out to be bigger than our bed so we had a lot of room and it is also a lot more rain proof than a tent. (only important because it rained cats and dogs that night) Another highlight of Saturday was the amount of baby time that Natalie got. She sure like babies...weird. Maybe I'll get her one for her birthday.
Sunday Consisted of more rain, more babies more sleeping in the car and Davis's.
Monday, we got haircuts. I got the girl who sucks... again. The first time I got her I showered after and realized that she missed half of my hair and drove back enraged to get it fixed at which point she practically scalped me. I was very bitter but I am too nice to really confront the girl about it so I allowed myself to be victimized again this time. I swore profusely and then re-cut it myself at home. I was way too mad to go back. I am getting mad now just thinking about it. ...must kill soon.
Well, it is late and I must be getting to bed now. That sums up the post that I should have finishd earlier. Better late than never I guess.
until next time...
Later we went to Salt Lake to visit the Hales who are on my side of the family who are some of my favorite people in the world and after that we headed back to Utah County where I destroyed my heel at the skatepark by bruising it really bad. After that, we decided to camp out with the family in our car so we loaded all of our earthy belongings (not really though), several bratwursts and headed back to the Davis gathering.
It was really fun because our car turns out to be bigger than our bed so we had a lot of room and it is also a lot more rain proof than a tent. (only important because it rained cats and dogs that night) Another highlight of Saturday was the amount of baby time that Natalie got. She sure like babies...weird. Maybe I'll get her one for her birthday.
Sunday Consisted of more rain, more babies more sleeping in the car and Davis's.
Monday, we got haircuts. I got the girl who sucks... again. The first time I got her I showered after and realized that she missed half of my hair and drove back enraged to get it fixed at which point she practically scalped me. I was very bitter but I am too nice to really confront the girl about it so I allowed myself to be victimized again this time. I swore profusely and then re-cut it myself at home. I was way too mad to go back. I am getting mad now just thinking about it. ...must kill soon.
Well, it is late and I must be getting to bed now. That sums up the post that I should have finishd earlier. Better late than never I guess.
until next time...
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