#at home i now have cheap garden gloves for dusting and cleaning

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One of the weird upsides of my work is that they put such a huge emphasis on wearing gloves to do work that this has crossed over into real life and tbh. Chores are more tolerable with gloves.

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Newsies as Roommates: Chores Edition

Once upon a time, all the Newsies and Kat decided to move into a giant house. Now while it may seem unrealistic, the writer of this new little mini series doesn't care, and has decided to do this anyway. Jack bought the house, and invited the Brooklyn boys to help them move in, but they're all in for a major shock when arriving at the house. So without further ado, welcome to Newsies as Roommates, chapter one.

-The front of the house is covered in stains and eggs and they don't even want to know

-There obviously used to be a garden, but it's overgrown and there are a fuckton of weeds

-There is trash everywhere outside

-The gutters are horrid and the roof needs to be fixed

-Correction, needed to be fixed y e a r s ago

-Inside isn't much better, with graffiti and unfinished walls and holes in a few of the floorboards

-The carpet is a t r o c i o u s with a hell of a lot of stains

-They don't want to talk about upstairs

-Or downstairs

-Or where they're standing

-Everyone looks at Jack, wondering why the hell he bought this place

-But no longer wondering why it's so cheap

-They decide to split into two teams, outside and inside

-Outside is Albert, Smalls, Specs, Romeo, Elmer, Jojo, Les and Colt

-Albert and Elmer go on the roof to clean the gutters, even though Davey screams N O

-Albert accidentally falls, but specs and Romeo by some miracle thought ahead and they had put both Elmer and Al in harnesses

-Specs and Romeo are in charge of picking up trash and then pressure washing the sides of the house

-Jojo and Les work raking the yard, then Jojo teaches Les how to mow

-"DO NOT LET THE NINE YEAR OLD NEAR THAT CHILD DEATH TRAP JOJO!"

-He does it anyway

-Smalls and Colt love gardening and they go to t o w n

-After each of the outside teams finishes their jobs they go and help them

-The inside team is Jack, Race, Spot, Davey, Kat, Dots, Henry, Kid Blink, Sniper, Finch, Mush, Buttons and Crutchie

-This team doesn't split up, as there is too much to do just downstairs, however different pairs cover different tasks

-Kat and Davey work in the front hall to scrub it clean, then they split up and race to finish so they can help Jack and Crutchie paint

-Race and Spot are in charge of garbage in the front hall, then they move to the kitchen and then to the living room, before making it a competition against the other trash team, Kid Blink and Mush

-The house is trash free within an hour

-However neither team will admit defeat so there's a lot of shouting

-Until crutchie comes screams they're all losers because they had to pick up trash

-Dots and Henry scrub the floors and since there's carpet in some of the other rooms, they run to Home Depot for a big carpet cleaner

-buuuuut.... they can't get it out of the car so Jack comes and helps them lift it

-Buttons, Finch and Sniper are in charge of general cleaning

-They all put on gloves, masks, hair nets and aprons and call themselves the Cleaning Baddies

-Dots hears them and smacks them upside the head because "that's the worst joke I've ever heard and I've worked with Race"

-That earned a "OI WATCH IT" from race but a snicker of agreement from everyone else

-Anyway, they clean the windows, countertops, toilets, sinks, fridge, and they dust

-Last but not least, Crutchie and Jack paint the garage and once everyone inside finished their work, the inside

-Crutchie accidentally put his crutch in the paint

-Jack "accidentally" got paint on Crutchie's cheek

-So of course Crutchie "a c c i d e n t a l l y" got paint on Jack's arm

-Once they move inside and start painting the house, Race and Spot end up painting themselves more than the wall

-Mush is surprisingly good at getting the paint even, so he, Jack, Kat and Davey manage to finish a few rooms quickly

-The outdoor people come inside to help paint, and soon they all manage to get the job done

-But they also all have to shower and change because paint some how managed to get all over them

-"JACK I SWEAR IF YOU 'ACCIDENTALLY' GET PAINT ON ME AGAIN YOU'LL REGRET IT"

-"How the hell did you manage to step in it? TWICE?"

-"PAINT GOES ON THE WALL NOT ON HIS BACK"

-"this takes talking to a wall to a whole new level"

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The buzz on bees: Why buckets of honey aren’t the only reason you should consider this rewarding hobby | News

On a nice spring day like this, thousands of honeybees are zipping in and out of Mike Rekart’s hives. The Denton County Beekeepers Association member sits about 6 feet away with a beer, watching the ladies — all worker bees are female — return from their journeys. The “pollen baskets” on their back legs are packed with yellow dust from the 50 to 100 flowers each has visited.

A steady buzzing emanates from the wooden box. That sound, as distinctive to bees as honey itself, comes from the insects’ wings beating up to 200 times a second. It does not rattle Mike, who is relaxing in his Denton garden with no special gear on.

“One of the big things the beekeepers in this area are after is gentle bees,” he says. “I can get close to mine. They don’t sting my dog. The strain I have is not aggressive. We’re able to live in harmony with them very easily.”

Mike is watching his hive not just for his own enjoyment, but to see if he notices anything amiss or unusual. Catching a problem early and responding to it is crucial to successful beekeeping — something he found out the hard way during the first two years of his hobby.

“I didn’t do well,” he says. “I made it through the summer, and then it all died. I tried to redo some things myself, and I was just failing. Bees are very forgiving if you get on something that happens to them fast, but I was uneducated about the signs of things happening. I needed some guidance.”

Fortunately, that guidance is available through the Denton County Beekeepers Association for any Denton County resident who is considering the rewarding hobby of beekeeping.

“I joined the club, and man, it was the bomb,” says Mike, who now has one “giant” hive in his backyard, eight more on shared land, more honey than he can eat, and a garden of well-pollinated lemons and avocados. “I feel like I’ve got 30 years’ worth of knowledge now, not three, because the club is really more than the sum of its parts. There’s a whole host of people you can go to to get information that’ll help you, and beekeepers are very excited to swap knowledge and give advice freely.”

The growing club of around 120 members is a little over 3 years old. DCBA President Candi Pardue says the goal is to support Denton County beekeepers while educating residents about our county’s pollinators.

Awareness is important because pollinators such as honeybees are responsible for one out of every three bites of food humans eat, according to Bee City USA, which designated Denton as the state’s second Bee City USA (after Beeville, obviously) in 2016. The certification indicates Denton’s commitment to helping these important pollinators survive.

Beekeeping 101

One way to help is to consider becoming an urban (or suburban) beekeeper yourself. Start by checking your local ordinances, which vary from city to city. Denton’s, for example, stipulates that you may have up to four hives on an acre of land, while Flower Mound says you can have no more than three on less than an acre. If you live in a neighborhood with a homeowners association, check there as well, and of course, take neighbors into consideration. Bees sting as a last resort (each bee can sting only once because the act of stinging kills them), but a neighbor with a life-threatening allergy to bee venom won’t care much about that fun fact.

You need not have a lavish garden or orchard. Your bees will forage within a 2- to 3-mile radius of their hive and can zip around at speeds of up to 15 miles per hour. “They can go up to 5 miles,” says Candi. “I try to tell people not to have tunnel vision.”

Take an Intro to Beekeeping workshop hosted by the DCBA, join a club to network with other beekeepers and consider private lessons. “A lot of people prefer to take lessons,” says Candi, who has been teaching beginner beekeeping for five years. “It’s not a requirement, but I tell people that it’s always wise to invest in your education first because you don’t want to spend the money and time and then fail miserably.”

So how much money and time will you be investing in your new endeavor? Candi says the financial component can vary a lot depending on your choices. Bees cost between $175 and $300, but if you wait too late in the year, you could pay as much as $500.

“Most people wait until about May,” says Candi. “The sun is shining, we have beautiful weather and the flowers are blooming, then they want to become a beekeeper. At that point, it’s almost too late. The earlier in the year you can start planning, the better.”

You’ll also need protective equipment. For that, you can spend as little as $30 for a simple hat, veil and gloves or get a top-of-the-line suit for $300. The same flexibility goes for your wooden hives.

“Do you want to go on the cheap? Or is this something that is going to sit right near your home that you want to look really nice?” asks Candi. “You could spend $350 or you could cut some corners and probably get that down to around $200.”

As for the investment in time, “I tell my first-year students to get in the hive two or three times a week [from May to August or September],” says Candi. “There are beekeepers that have more of a hands-off approach. They believe you just let the bees be bees and maybe check them once a month. That first year, it’s a good idea to be very hands-on. That’s your learning, your education. The more you learn and the better you’re able to anticipate what your bees need, the less time it takes. Around your second or third year, you kind of hit your stride and have a good visual on what they’re doing and what they need from you.”

God save the queen (and her girls)

When you do inspect your hives, Candi says you’re looking to make sure that the queen is healthy and laying enough eggs (as many as 2,500 a day during certain times of year); that the bees have enough but not too much room; and that they are bringing in enough pollen and nectar.

“We do have times of the year in North Texas where there’s a dearth,” she says. “That means there’s no food available for your hive. During that time, we can supplement feed with sugar, syrup, pollen substitute and things like that. You just want to make sure they’re fed. Honeybees are the only livestock that you really want to be fat because a fat bee is a happy bee, and we want happy bees.”

Those are some things you’ll be checking for during inspections, but you will likely run into a lot of other fascinating behaviors as well. Let’s start by meeting the three types of bees you’ll find inside your hive: the queen bee, worker bees and drones.

There is only queen, and she’s key to the colony’s success. They’ll know quickly if she’s gone. An experienced eye can find her; she is longer and leaner than the other bees and has a more pointed abdomen. She takes one mating flight when she’s young, mating in midair with up to 15 males, then in many cases, never leaves the hive again. She can live up to five years but may be replaced by her colony sooner if she’s inefficient at laying eggs.

Drones (boy bees) are created when the queen chooses to lay an unfertilized egg. They make up a very small percentage of the colony because their entire job is to hang out in the sky in drone congregation areas — the bee equivalent of a singles bar — waiting to mate. Because they don’t contribute to the hive (they can’t even fend off invaders because they lack a stinger), they are usually kicked out as winter approaches and food becomes scarce.

The vast majority of a colony is made up of worker bees — daughters of the queen — who hold several jobs during their short lives. They are janitors (cleaning out cells for eggs), nurses (feeding baby bees), construction workers (building honeycomb cells from wax and repairing damaged cells) and guards (keeping the hive safe). They may also regulate the temperature of the hive, bring in water, pack up pollen, seal off finished honey, remove the dead or even tend to the queen. Busy bees indeed!

The last stage of their lives is, of course, foraging. These girls need to gather nectar from about 2 million flowers and fly about 90,000 miles to make a single pound of honey, so there’s no time for wasted flights. That’s why they have an ingenious method of communicating when they’ve found a sweet stash of flowers. It’s called the waggle dance. (Yes, really.) When a forager finds something exciting, she returns with the news and a sample. She shimmies in a figure-eight then does an elaborate dance to communicate where the others can find the treasure.

“Beekeeping is the most fascinating thing,” says Candi. “And you will never in your life taste honey as good as your first honey harvest. True local honey is amazing and hands-down, 100% better than what you’ll buy in a store.”

Threat watch

In addition to the intriguing behaviors of these social little creatures and the pounds of golden honey you’ll get to share with friends, there may be another reason to become a backyard beekeeper: “It wouldn’t be out of the realm of possibility that our bees are actually saved by our small-scale beekeepers because the commercial guys are losing so many,” says Candi. “It’s not a fault of theirs. I love and respect them. They have a really hard job and are doing the best they can, but we need that older style of farming too.”

The oft-talked-about colony collapse disorder is, Candi says, not one single condition but rather the result of a number of factors in our agricultural system. Large commercial pollinators truck hundreds or even thousands of hives around the country to pollinate almonds, berries, canola and other crops. Those bees eat only one thing and are stressed by travel.

“It would be like you and me working 80 hours a week and only eating cheeseburgers,” she says. “At some point, we’re going to be unhealthy, and that’s kind of what those bees face. Bees are not meant to be put on an 18-wheeler and locked in for three days while they travel across the country.”

In addition to stress and poor nutrition, the EPA notes that other risk factors for honeybees include the invasive varroa mite, new and emerging diseases, pesticide poisoning and habitat changes.

We can help with many of these factors as community beekeepers. “Our hives aren’t moving around. They have a very diverse diet with trees and wildflowers. We’re able to supplement and feed them when we need to. They have kind of a cushy job.” And creating more healthy bees with cushy jobs is never a bad thing.

Good stewards

Whether you have an interest in beekeeping or just want to help keep these important pollinators safe, you can help by planting bee-friendly plants, supporting legislation that helps bees and using caution when using chemicals in your yard.

“Bees are amazing, and they’re fun,” says Candi. “The more beekeepers and non-beekeeping residents in the county can work together and benefit each other when it comes to herbicide and pesticide use and hive management, the better. We’re stewards for this tiny bee, so let’s put our best foot forward and do the best we can for everybody, so everyone is happy, and bees aren’t ever a nuisance in Denton County.”

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