Gleaning Facebook: Blue House Bees

Mike Burton has a long history with bees and even I have had a brush or two with those experiences. So when I saw this I knew I'd want to preserve his Facebook post here on my public journal.

"Honey bees in the floor joist. Major operations to remove wall and cut out comb and place in large tubs. Randy Williams us putting hoe 6 or 7 feet into floor to drag out honey. I'm looking fir queen to put in new hive. Few stings so maybe arthritis will abate. Another hive under the living room. Smoker working better so maybe find that queen and be able to move away from the house." - Michael J. Burton

 

Facebook Comments

Ann Perkins Niemeier
Oh no!

Laura A. Washington
Wow!!!

Freida Tucker Seckinger
Don't hear you say this, so I will say it for you. "There is always something."

Michael J. Burton
It's either piss ants or bedbugs is what mama said

Vivian Ray Benton
LOL

Freida Tucker Seckinger
Michael J. Burton Her comment is so funny. Mama used to say "it is from hell to breakfast." Can't explain that, but I knew what she was implying.

Freida Tucker Seckinger
That comment made me think of an event at Camp Sidney Dew back about 1965. We were at the boy scout program for Tom's little brother, David. Believe it or not, I had on my redish wig, one piece hot pant suit, and a good tan. I know that is hard to believe now, but it is true. Anyway, I sat down on a log while having a snack. Yes ants appeared you know where. I almost took off my suit heading to the bathroom, while Tom's mother Kate was yelling, "Wait Freida, wait." Such fun memories . . .

Michael J. Burton

Toooo funny

Vicki Rogers
did u save honey to consume? so natural, no preservative, real food right from honey bees.

Calvin Hughes Jr
Who own house?

Michael J. Burton
My daughter

Calvin Hughes Jr
Oh ok.

Julie Bagaglio Peters
Ginger Whiteis is this your house?

Ginger Whiteis
It's my sisters. Kinda looks like the weathered blue on the back of my house 

. Thank goodness I'm not dealing with bees.

Lynn Green Self
Yikes! I always hired a local drink to get my bees each year. He never wore a bee suit and was so drunk he didn't care if he got stung! What a great character!

Michael J. Burton
Send him our way

Lynn Green Self
Alcohol got him first!

Dinah Moss Estes
Finally you did and I am glad. You know when I was renting 2nd floor of this house at that time but loved this house. I was little worried but I just ignored and knew they won't bother me as long as I won't bother them. They are valuable to the nature.

Terrell Shaw
We'll be happy to help dispose of the honey, Little Red Gola Burton.

Jamie Saunders
Wow honey !!!!!

William Kolok
Oh does that bring me back to the old days

Michael J. Burton

Yeah I thought about you and the bees down at the creek where we robbed honey and then painted

Bill Barker
Wow

Gola Burton
Rained on the bucket of honey and bees. Too many to move it before the rain. We were not home when the rain started. But... I am sure there will be more honey to rob

Jeri Carter
Somewhere I think we have negatives of old pictures of you in a beekeeper's hat/net and smoker, robbing the hives down at the old homestead on the creek...

Michael J. Burton
Love to have a copy

Jeri Carter
Right now the old B&W negatives are buried in a bunch of other stuff in the art storage/darkroom downstairs. I'll keep my eyes peeled and if I find any of the old photos, will send them....

Michael J. Burton
Thanks

Kelly Wilbourn Brady
Glad its not being killed..we need more honey..

Betty Smith Franklin
My guest accommodations.....

Gleaning Facebook: First Date

Sheila Shaw to Nannette Rutsch on Facebook:

Happy Birthday, Nanette! Do you remember that you loaned me an outfit for a Saturday night date when we were at Asbury? It was my first date with Terrell Shaw. Thanks again for loaning me the outfit. And sorry I spilled Coke on it that night! Ha ha! Fond memories! I hope you have a great day! I enjoy seeing the pictures of your beautiful family!

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Comments

Terrell Shaw
Sheila was kind to use the phrase: "I spilled Coke". She claims that's the way she remembers it. As I recall, it was her boyfriend who spilled the Coke.

Sheila Matthews Shaw
Terrell Shaw, your memory is getting worse and worse. I spilled the Coke. And you weren't my boyfriend. First date, remember? But, you are my boyfriend now. 

Terrell Shaw
Yes, Dear," says your seventy-year-old boyfriend.

Nanette Rutsch
Awwww, good for you, Sheila and Terrell. Hope he always remains your boyfriend!

Nanette Rutsch
Oh, wow, Sheila, I do not remember that!! Funny the things we remember, isn't it? Glad we can keep in touch through Facebook.

Gleaning Facebook: A Real Photographer at Arrowhead

Beautiful. Great to have a real photographer out at Arrowhead! I hope we get to see Ramsey's senior pics, Monica Sheppard!

From Monica's Facebook --

It was a beautiful evening at Arrowhead Environmental Education Center for Ramsey's senior pictures. Lindsay got great pics of her! I can't wait for you to see them!

 

Gleaning Facebook: Visiting the Cherokee Cabin

What a treasure for Cave Spring to have the Vann cabin preserved, right there on the square. Cave Spring is also fortunate to have Steve and Laurie living just a couple of city blocks off the square. And Sheila and I are fortunate to have these three kindred spirits in our lives --- wild-eyed liberals, the true conservatives, IMO.

The front of the Vann cabin, decorated with three other antiques.

Mike Bock & I got a personal tour of the restored Vann cabin in Cave Spring. What a wonderful thing that this treasure, hidden in the walls of the Green Hotel for many decades, has been revealed and reconstructed, and preserved for the future. We owe a graet debt to Steve Craw, Michael J. Burton, Billy W Abernathy, and a hundred other Cave Springers for their hard work and dedication in this effort.

 

Gleaning Facebook: Artist James Schroeder

Watch artist James Schroeder create one of his works. Glad to have a little of his work in our house. 

Gleaning Facebook: Impeach!

The cover-up is on for our crooked president and his sleazy cohorts. Impeach.

Comments:

Sharon Clark
He has some Intel to show the house and senate intelligence committee leaders that will clear the whole thing up...cough cough ahem...(sarcasm)

CeCe Baker
What I've been saying since November 9: #IMPEACHTrumpNOWForTREASON applies.

Anne Edwards Langley
The entire time he was screaming Lock Her Up look what he was up to. The Glen Frye song "The Heat Is On" comes to mind

Charlie Hehn
I like the line from smugglers blues....."Pay offs, rip offs and things nobody saw......" to me it epitomizes politics in general, left/middle/right.

Paula Graves
I CANNOT wait to see what Flynn knows

Sharon Clark
But will he tell all

Drew Fountain
Shhhh .... just wait, we need to let the man do what he promised. He promised America many things - one promise was to "Drain the Swamp" well that's exactly what will happen.
All those senators/congressmen that blindly supported his hateful rhetoric will have to answer to their voters , and what are the GOP candidates doing ? They're already cancelling town-hall meetings with their constituents, or they're just not showing up,
So, Thanks to him, in two years the house and senate will see a significant turnover . So Yes he will drain the swamp, but those impacted are those red supporters who blindly followed his irrational agendas with a mantra of "we're anti liberals". So all those neo-conservatives that drank that very unsweetened tea - they threw fistfuls of cash and support to that candidate, Soon they will soon realize they were victims to the big deceiver.
It's clear that our society swung too far right ... so now it's time to let the national pendulum swing left for a while. Most Americans grow weary of the deception , the "wink, nudge" business deals, and prefer straight talking honest ideas.

Melissa Pyle-Hamilton
Indeed. Impeach that sorry thing!!!

Ishmael Williams
May the first 100 days be the last. Take Pence with you. Ryan should not be placed in the president's office by a corrupt admin. Lets declare this presidency a bust and get our second choice - Clinton.

Melissa Pyle-Hamilton
Amen! Although, based on popular vote, Hillary was the #1 choice. That along with Russia's tampering leaves us wondering just how badly America really wanted Hillary as President.

Jim Geist

impeach and REMOVAL.

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The current Republican administration is the most shameful in history. Impeach and remove.

Comments:

Sharon Clark
Hypocrite

Anne Edwards Langley
If I were Hillary I would be giddy at this point

Terrell Shaw
Except that when we impeach the Prima Donald, we'll be left with Pence. The right thing would be to overturn the illegitimate election, but we have no mechanism to right this horrible wrong.

Ray Langley
I believe Pence knew what was going on

Donald Murdock
Hopefully, Flynn will blow the whistle on Pence, Trump, and the whole horrendous house of cards. Interesting times. Should be fun.

Jim Geist
Wow.....dirty, dirty, dirty......

Tim Shiflett
I would rather have Pence there. He is the best of the bad choices. If Flynn goes, we have Ryan, and............just, no.

Terrell Shaw
Take the House in '18 and have a Democratic speaker ready by the time the impeachment trial ends?

Tim Shiflett
Okay, we're in the realm of good miracles, here. LOL

Imagine the GOP's worst nightmare; President Pelosi. Heads would explode..............

Terrell Shaw
Virtually what I was about to punch into my iPhone! 

Tim Shiflett
LOL

Ray Langley
I really believe Pence and Ryan are part of the cover up

CeCe Baker
#IMPEACHTrumpNOWForTREASON

Laurie Craw
Shouldn't be celebrating yet. This may be a trick. He may be being paid by Russians to lie under oath and protect his co-conspirators.

Gleaning Facebook: Big Noggins

As we left the choir room tonight I walked out with Nancy Elder. Passing a rack of robes she pointed out the Cherub Robes.

"Remember these?" she asked.

"The Cherub Robes?"

"Yes, " she said, holding out the last one, "This is Brannon's."

[see pic]

"Is her name still in it?" I queried.

"No. I made these. [30 years ago!] The first time the kids wore them, all the other kids could wear 'em; Brannon couldn't get hers over her noggin. I cut a wedge out of the collar so she could wear it!"

I had the largest head in my graduating class at West Rome in 1965. There was one guy at Asbury who had a larger morterboard hat than mine in 1969. I have always contended that cranial capacity is strongly correlated with intelligence.

The apple falls not far from the tree, eh, Brannon Shaw?

Barron Kirkpatrick Frazier Brown So who in our class had a bigger head than you!? 

Terrell Shaw I wouldn't want to embarrass a dear friend like Mike Bock by identifying him as the one with the freakishly huge noggin.

Barron Kirkpatrick Frazier Brown I won't tell a soul!

Terrell Shaw You are truly a kindred spirit, Barron. .. always caring and tactful to a fault! 

Barron Kirkpatrick Frazier Brown

Deborah Lake Dawson Really, I have a big head, hmmm.

Gleaning Facebook: Remember?

 "There's no use in asking this White House for factual information." -Rachel Maddox

Terrell Shaw
Rachel is absolutely correct. The Truth is not in them. This Republican administration is the least honest in history. It is a statement of simple, easily demonstrated fact, not opinion, that our President and his primary spokespersons are blatant liars.

Ishmael Williams
They are not even trying to lie convincingly.

Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
I watch her as often as I can. She seems to be a straight shooter.

Ray Langley
I have seen her get something wrong and the next day apologize and correct the mistake.

Ishmael Williams
She is a great interviewer. She knows her subject, knows how to set it up, and asks important questions. Doesn't get in the way unless someone is evasive (Conway).

Jim Geist
You Betcha!

Michael Morgan
Stop shaking your head....

Ace Theshepherd
The same could be said of the media

Terrell Shaw
Give chapter and verse please. What major NYT WashPo AJC NBC ABC CBS news figures have told 300 deliberate lies since Jan 20, 2017? No, this GOP admin is unique in quantity and degree of prevarication.

Jeff Akin
Only if you believe the White House....

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From Dagmar D. Schmitz Carlton's Facebook:

 

We were warned....

Straight from the transcripts of the Clinton-Trump Debate 9/26/2016:

CLINTON: Well, that’s because he’d rather have a puppet as president of the United States.

TRUMP: No puppet. No puppet.

CLINTON: And it’s pretty clear...

TRUMP: You’re the puppet!

CLINTON: It’s pretty clear you won’t admit...

TRUMP: No, you’re the puppet.

CLINTON: ... that the Russians have engaged in cyberattacks against the United States of America, that you encouraged espionage against our people, that you are willing to spout the Putin line, sign up for his wish list, break up NATO, do whatever he wants to do, and that you continue to get help from him, because he has a very clear favorite in this race.

So I think that this is such an unprecedented situation. We’ve never had a foreign government trying to interfere in our election. We have 17 — 17 intelligence agencies, civilian and military, who have all concluded that these espionage attacks, these cyber-attacks, come from the highest levels of the Kremlin and they are designed to influence our election. I find that deeply disturbing.

WALLACE: Secretary Clinton...

CLINTON: And I think it’s time you take a stand...

TRUMP: She has no idea whether it’s Russia, China, or anybody else.

CLINTON: I am not quoting myself.

TRUMP: She has no idea.

CLINTON: I am quoting 17...

TRUMP: Hillary, you have no idea.

CLINTON: ... 17 intelligence — do you doubt 17 military and civilian...

TRUMP: And our country has no idea.

CLINTON: ... agencies.

TRUMP: Yeah, I doubt it. I doubt it.

CLINTON: Well, he’d rather believe Vladimir Putin than the military and civilian intelligence professionals who are sworn to protect us. I find that just absolutely...

(CROSSTALK)

TRUMP: She doesn’t like Putin because Putin has outsmarted her at every step of the way.

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Gleaning Facebook: Arrowhead Today

What a warm March day at Arrowhead Environmental Education Center. I am on duty as caretaker of the animals during this "spring break" week. After feeding and while the tortoises grazed, I took a walk and some pics.

Our grounds guy, Milton Ledbetter, goes above and beyond to keep things up. This week he has been repairing refurbishing this little boardwalk into one of the shady little ponds.

The Gopher Tortoises had already grazed on grass for a while so I sliced a few strawberries to give 'em a treat.

Our grounds guy, Milton Ledbetter, goes above and beyond to keep things up. This week he has been repairing refurbishing this little boardwalk into one of the shady little ponds.

Lots of nice walks out here.

But this one is almost dry right now.

If I count right we have at least 28 bodies of wetland/water at Arrowhead.

Marion Dobbs
I'll have to try to count in future. I'd not have guessed that many, but I'm betting you're right.

Terrell Shaw

There are 

-- 14 in the main group along the south side of the little creek. 

-- Seven along the northside of the creek (several are small.) 

-- The main lake. 

-- The Ducks Unlimited wetland below the picnic shelter. 

-- The big beaver pond on the northside of the property.

-- the fishing pond between the Ed. Bldg and the DNR bldg

I have not counted the small ponds south of the main group, but there are at least four.

So that makes 29! Of course many of them are dry at least part of the year.

Emily Robinson

Such a beautiful place

Susan Polkinghorn
This land is heavenly! Where is it?

Susan Polkinghorn
Ah! Ga. Rome! Close by-2 hours.

Terrell Shaw
On Floyd Springs Road in northern Floyd County, GA. Arrowhead Environmental Education Center

If I count right we have at least 28 bodies of wetland/water at Arrowhead.

This is a big ol' oak.

The box turtles were hungry guys today. Box turtles are long-lived critters. We believe Juan (on the extreme right) is older than ME! I turned 70 last week.

This Yellow-bellied Slider was crossing my path, so I waylaid him for some pics.

If I count right we have at least 28 bodies of wetland/water at Arrowhead.