Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

A BEE dog! How awesome!

 

[drstratton]

Hey @drstratton -- I saw this and thought of you....
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Maple is part of the team at MSU’s Pollinator Performance Center doing critical pollinator research and education. A retired police K-9, she uses her super sense of smell to detect bacteria in bee colonies to help prevent disease from spreading.
Currently, beekeepers must manually inspect colonies for disease, but dogs like Maple can identify disease much faster, which could make a big impact on the industry.
This project is one of many occurring at the Pollinator Performance Center. Operating since 2021, the center allows MSU to be at the forefront of honeybee and other pollinator research.

Oh wow, that is so cool. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Dogs are so amazing! Would be great if this really helped the bees.

 

[canesisters]

3am on my night off
Watching old movies, wide awake
Wish the internet was more active in the middle of the night.
Holding off on coffee until closer to 'normal human activity hours'.

 

[Mini Horses]

Another hot & muggy day. They say - a little more rain about midnight....oh, no. No, no, no . Every time I think I'll get grass dry enough to cut, more rain.

Tomorrow I'm set for food processing. Cheese making, tomato canning. That's the plan, hope it happens, without surprises.

 

[Baymule]

Another hot day. July 31, tomorrow August. Y’all know the best thing about August 1?
32 days later it will be September 1 and it might start cooling down.

 

[drstratton]

3am on my night off
Watching old movies, wide awake
Wish the internet was more active in the middle of the night.
Holding off on coffee until closer to 'normal human activity hours'.

I hate nights like that. Hope you got a little sleep.

 

[Blue Sky]

Gene Logsdon coined the phrase “with the ingenuity of the suicidal”. He was describing how his ewe got her head stuck in a hole in a frozen pond. She and the flock had drank from this hole successfully during the frigid winter of whenever. Surrounding ice was solid, the hole was not big enough to fall into. Ewe pitched forward, lost her footing and drowned. Present day. The sun is barely up, birds are singing and it becomes evident I own the sister of Logsdon’s ewe. Somehow my ewe was caught in the 8” x 6” opening in a standard cattle panel. Wedged with her nose pointed to the sky, chin firmly against the bottom. All she had to do was stand up and back out. So I got her loose gave her a walloping dose of molasses tonic and she walked to the barn and bedded down. Things looked good til they didn’t. I’m just in from lugging my former sheep to her final resting place. Yesterday Caddo and Moses went on walkabout. Another jaunt to neighbor’s pond for a swim then an entertaining afternoon watching mom screech their names like a fishwife from the shady woods. I may take the rest of the day off. Early lunchtime and puppy time.

 

[SageHill]

Sorry about the ewe.
You need a hefty dose of puppy antics.

 

[fuzzi]

Another hot & muggy day. They say - a little more rain about midnight....oh, no. No, no, no . Every time I think I'll get grass dry enough to cut, more rain.

Tomorrow I'm set for food processing. Cheese making, tomato canning. That's the plan, hope it happens, without surprises.

My perennials are wilting, areas of grass are wilting, going crunchy.

Send your rain. Please.

 

[fuzzi]

3am on my night off
Watching old movies, wide awake
Wish the internet was more active in the middle of the night.
Holding off on coffee until closer to 'normal human activity hours'.

I mowed yesterday. Was feeling okay, so I kept going, for about an hour. Felt okay until I went to bed. My legs started twitching, and continued spasming until about 2am.

The DMSO saved me, everytime the muscles would start spasming I'd rub it on, again. The muscles would calm down, and I'd have rest for about 30 minutes, but then they'd start again.

I have to rate myself, the flesh is weak.