Sunday nite Catch-up!

Beemaster.com
This is where I've been spending alot of time recently. This is a place kind of like "WONDERLAND"! This is where I go to learn about honeybees! This is where my favorite forum I've ever know is. This is where you can almost see people as God sees them..very peaceful, usually a very happy place! And, perhaps, on occasion, one of the funniest places I know!!
You can never tell when something here is gonna strike you so funny that you dont know if your gonne be able to NOT piss in your pants!!
Come on out here! Its a "Family Oriented Site"! Maybe you arent interested in bees at all. Maybe you want to got to a place thats not a "Meat Market" for once!
Who knows? After visiting this place you just MIGHT decide you want to keep bees!

Theres not enough people keeping bees now. Theres lots of diseases hurting the little bees now and they may have a better chance at surviving these threats with mans(and womans) help!

Well,...Think about it anyways. All the people here at Beemasters would love to see new people come by and visit!

your friend,

john

Well, I'm pretty much just messin' around here after NOT messin' around here for awhile. The days are cold and before you know it it gets up in the 80's! In the last few days I've been getting fishing lures ready to sell during this spring and summer. I'm fighting with my decision whether to raise my lure prices from $1.50 to $2.00 . I generally only charge enough to be able to make enough money to put in my boat and truck so I can go fishing. Gas is so high now that I may just trade lures for gasoline!
I'm also planning for my honeybee season. I may split some hives so I have more bees. If I split my hives though, it'll mean less of a honey harvest(so I've read). I REALLY like my bees!!...Bees and Fishin'..Fishin' and Bees!!
This week I decided (AGAIN) to attack my beer gut!!...Its NOT the first time I've made an attempt to lose weight..Two times in the last 3 years I've gone from 270 down to 235...And thats it....It just takes that 1 donut!!!....And everybody KNOWS that donuts arent sold at 1 ea!!(Well, they are, but not how I shop!)..So, This time I started at 253 lbs...I'm down to 247 now...1 day at a time, right? When i hit 235 again I'll tell you..Thats when the battle of the bulge escalates to ALL OUT WAR!!
Ok,...gotta go...I think I'll go to Walmart and buy a nice big bag of,.....BROCCOLI !!

Fishing Day!

The water was calm. I took this photo when the fish slowed down for a minute. Like I said, the water was calm...But I bet it was 95 degrees! We were already catching fish before I even put my camera down!

Janelles Portraits!

These are a few of my wifes portraits. The pics here dont do them justice as the light and colors come out different. I'll fix this later. Janelles kind of working on her own blog and there will be more information about "how" and "what" she does. When she gets it up and going I'll put a link here on my blog.

Come on In!!

Alot of local fishermen (and not so local, like my friend kenny Long who travels back and forth between Dallas and China) have come through this door to buy my fishing lures. Sometimes they come here to do business or perhaps to just "Hang Out, swill beer, and have a good time". Through the door behind me is the way to my wifes portrait studio. I guess you might call it "The Door Between Chaos and Culture".

Johns Lure Factory!
This is where it all happens...The fishing stories, the lies, the "secret places"...This place doesnt just make lures...Its one of the best places to make friends!

Slab Spoons!

This is a pile of the fishing lures I make. They've been in the works for awhile(6 months). I figured i'd better get busy making more as the fishing starts getting HOT in March. I have several hundred more to finish up like these..Pink and white is my favorite color...Hmmm,... funny thing...Pink and white is EVERYBODYS favorite color...Imagine that!

One of my "Daffodils"

One of my other hobbies is raising tropical fish.
This is one of my daffodils, very closely resembling a Brichardi(Lamprologus") He stays with another male in a tank full of other African cichlids. If I add a female to this tank I'll have hundreds of these before i know what hit me. The daffodils are one of my favorites, but they can be as mean as they are beautiful when they pair off.