Larry, I don't have any up at all. Nor any experience at all. Not trying to go nuts or big. What I have been trying to get at is that I don't want a cap at something so small. Meaning since failure and mistakes are given. I'm not going to call the shrink when mistakes are made, or when life happens. I do not have big plans. I don't even care so much if one hive makes it as long as I am learning through experience. Something to keep in mind is that almost all of our government employees are steve irwin/nat geo worshippers. They grew up often on the west coast or out in the North East. they watch tv, and are indoctrinated by the schools, or college. Usually it is the boomer grandparents, who were commies or maybe could have been at woodstock? Millenials are not something new. It started in the 60s. Sometimes the grandparents grew up, sometimes they just cut their hair and went gray. The millenials look up to them as aged and wise. They do not understand that they can't compare as a whole to the generation just above them. In 92 when one of them, Robert Redford came out with a movie called a river runs through it...Montana was flooded by these people pretty much overnight. Some wanted to escape their own mess and moved here. BUT...they brought their lovely grandkids who happened to be no good. They change everything. want to be wildlife biologists, who happen to dictate too much. y
Besides the extractor which I found out holds 8 frames total, a couple smokers, a bee suit, some wire dividers a couple feeders, a hot knife, and various frames, old langstroth boxes (maybe 20 to 30 in various conditions) and some other stuff in a couple of totes. Don't know anything about them other than that. The one local that got out of beekeeping after working at it professionally for a big company for years told me not to buy anything from them. To catch the swarms I get from demolitions, and remodels every spring. He told me those bees will be better for my area as they have to overwinter from about now until end of may before the first nectar flows. Don't know if this is true, but he said most bees here go to california to over winter. This forum has been great, I'm backing out of the idea of getting into it. Didn't want to ignore your question. You haven't been prissy at all Larry. I sure appreciate the advice. My oldest son is out welding up on the stainless extractor now. That boy don't let any grass grow under his feet! Be well and good luck to you Larry.