Thanks Jeff I appreciate the offer, my wife has kept bees for a few years. This is my first time trying.
That king a little early this year?

More pictures- wife’s Australian shepherd had a litter and it’s been fun watching the kids play with em. Sure is hard to see them go.

Bear baiting has been fun- fun time with the family and even a little success.

Success. Now time to make some breakfast sausage.

FF... how's that empty nest syndrome working out Sure was a cute batch of pups!

CM- horrible, by the end I was ready to keep them all. I’m glad they went to good homes. Darcy wants another litter in a year or two, gonna be awful tough to find another Stud of that quality.

Jeff.... did you ever get that new queen in the mail? Arrive in good shape ?

It was such a warm Spring here that my bees really took advantage of the banner willow bloom.
Never before had capped frames of honey from willow nectar !

It's pretty cool getting on and seeing how everyone is doing!

Congrats on the bear with the Bear. I like to collect a few of the them old Bear recurves.

FF Looks like you have a live in mentor , thats as good as it gets !
The king timing is about normal,just showing up here this past week. Not many caught here yet. Nice bear.



No queen yet ,It was supposed to be shipped this month. I have had several shipped in before, and all made it just fine in five days. The one ordered last year overwintered too.

I see mine bringing in willow nectar too. Always hoped we would have a warm spring to get some, Never happens here. One hive has about half a deep of blueberry,cranberry,wild mountain raspberry and a few other flowers coming in now.



Welcome back

Summer Chums are showing up. These are my favorite salmon. After Yukon Kings of course.

Amazes me, the difference between Yukon chums and chums from about anywhere else.

Yea, they are much better than other parts of the state I have seen. The fall run are even bigger, fatter, and nicer. They have to run the whole Yukon River so have a lot of fat stored. Our chums have a higher oil content than Kings in some places.

Been trying to hatch some eggs,( my first time)

My chickens had only one chick hatch. The quail I got 17 so far and still more hatching today.

My kind of "hatchery"!

Does the timing of the run seem normal this year? Or?

Yes I would say about normal this year. We had a somewhat early breakup, they wont run up until the water temps are just right, and we had a cool spring again.

Delicious looking Chum there Jeff.

You got anything special planned for them?
Say over the Kings?

If My smoke house wasn't in the water, I would be cutting these summer chums for dry fish. Along with some King strips.
I don't freeze them. I eat King in the winter.



I did throw one in the hot smoker while I wait for the water to drop.

Some King Fishing

Got my quail pens built. has a window that opens by plulling a rope to let them outside.



I hatched 21 but one drowned in the waterer. They are little bug killing machines. They are ten days old and already can fly.