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Category Archives: Science
The Enemy’s Gate is Down.
Windsurfing requires a lot of angles to come together properly to work right. Wind comes from a direction, which changes often in direction and velocity. A sail will always tend to luff (or, in the case of a windsurfing sail, … Continue reading
Four days in The Gorge
It finally rained in Portland and Seattle, knocking down the smoke from the BC wildfires. Rain in Troutdale Sunday morning, sunny and cranking at The Hook. You gotta love physics. Both kids really enjoyed the weekend, lots of progress with … Continue reading
A better Arduino
I have an automation project. Like a CNC, but different. Anyway, some computer-controlled sensors and motors and stuff. Normally, I would reach for an Arduino for this task, but I stopped, for two reasons. First, there was a particular protocol … Continue reading
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Tagged ascom, K8055, op amp, ULN2803
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First frost
Today we woke up to a frosty lawn. There was quite a bit of hard rain last week, followed by a nice day or two over the weekend. The clouds kept coming in overnight to warm things up, but last … Continue reading
Honey starting to come in
Over the course of the last 2 weeks, I’ve been starting to pull off fully-capped frames of honey from the supers. I’d put 3 supers on each hive, but the third super wasn’t getting a lot of action, and I … Continue reading
Summertime
I’m sitting in the dining room, watching bees zoom back and forth doing their thing. It’s very relaxing. The weather has been doing a strange thing for the past week. We’d had a hot spell, where it was clear and … Continue reading
Bees – Blackberry dearth, knotweed begins
I hadn’t been really putting much information on the blog this year about the bees. I don’t know why; I guess I’m just out of the habit. I’ve noticed that I am getting a lot more information form my inspections … Continue reading
2013 Bees
I’ve been remiss in bee updates this year, so here’s the quick catch-up: All three of our hives died during the winter. It looked like they just swarmed out last summer; there was plenty of food still in the hives, … Continue reading
Nothing to see here
I’ve been fascinated with subliminal advertising since I was fairly young. The stuff they do to try to hock one vial of snake oil or another is amazing. Usually, the stuff goes over my head; the “Sex” that seems to … Continue reading
Bees, problem solving
We intended to get the honey supers onto the beehives before we left on our road trip, but that didn’t happen. So, we did a full inspection yesterday, and noticed that the Eastern hive seemed to have fewer bees in … Continue reading