AND those Oscar winning selfies 
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Happy Birthday Gerald!!!
and many more!
Best wishes to you & your crew 
Hi all,
My brother came over today with his wife n gave me a Boston Cherry Creme Pie/cake ā¦ He brought one of those Flair I-Phone infa-red cameras. So I took it out to the beeyard n I was able to take several Flir photos. The results are really informative n resourceful.
Iāve taken photos left to right in order I took photos. This camera is really helpful I believe like your hive sensors Dawn. .
Eating my cake tonight. Yummy as always. Thanks Dawn, Dee n Eva for birthday greetings n wishes. And yes ā¦ I like sharing my photos including selfies. Iāve liked using photography for helping others enjoy n learn interesting thing. Right now Iām enjoying sharing pictures of my bees. It helps acquaintances n friends learn more n more about the importance of bees in our lives.
Nitie nite all ā¦ It was a great Birthday !
Thanks everyone,
Gerald
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I see you post is from a while back: but can I ask dawn: how thick is the copper (?) sheeting on the roof of you hive? Did you do that or is that how it came? I just got a price on copper at 0.8mm thick- i am wondering if an even thinner option would work and is available. I am about to make some roofs and love the look of the copper ones- they should weather and age well too.
The copper is the same thickness as normal roofing flashing. I didnāt do it, it came that way from Brushy Mountain. I would say it is a lot thinner than 0.8mm. Probably more like 0.25mm. I would think that the thicker copper would be tricky to bend to shape over the roof edges.
Good morning Dawn,
Itās Thanksgiving Day 
n so much to be appreciative of ā¦ Have great family, plenty of food n warm home, my three hives seem to be doing great n much more ! Sending you a very Happy Thanksgiving to you n your sweetie !
Just finished preparing my special holiday Wassle with Apple Cider, apples, ginger root, oranges spices n more. Needs several hours to brew now. I hear my rooster crowing as daylight tries to come this rainy/stormy holiday. 
Happy holiday dear friend n anyone else reading !
Gerald
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Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Jerry and Vera, and to all of my friends on this Forum! I am very thankful to have met you all and spent time with you over the last year or so. I am also very thankful that we have our bees and that they are doing well in our back garden.
Cranberry sauce is made. Yukon Gold potatoes are sitting ready to be peeled and the turkey has been brining in a salty mix with brown sugar, allspice berries, cloves, black pepper and bay leaves. We are going to smoke it in our Weber Smoky Mountain smoker, using cherry and apple wood. Hopefully the smoke will blow away from the hive - donāt want to upset the bees today! Of course we will have green baby beans, plus carrots and parsnips. All moistened with a white wine and herb turkey gravy (home made from scratch) - I might put a spoonful of honey into the gravy, just a hint of richness, not actually sweet.
Hope everybody has a good day, whether or not you celebrate Thanksgiving! 
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Happy Thanksgiving to everybody here too. We donāt have a national thanksgiving day though lots of churches and schools will be having harvest festivals. A national day may well comeā¦ Kids go trick or treating and folk shout, āHappy Halloweenā to each other now.
A lot of things make their way across The Pondā¦you can keep āThe Donaldā though.
@Dawn_SD I grew Yukon Gold two years agoā¦lovely spuds 
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We joke with our American friends that actually the UK does have a Thanksgiving Day. It is the 4th of July, when Brits give thanks for getting rid of the pesky Americans!
I agree Yukon Golds are wonderful. As we canāt get King Edwards or Maris Pipers here, I had to explore and these are the best I have found so far.
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The other half doesnāt care for Turkey so were cooking a rib roast in the rotisserie oven and having a nice quiet dinner for two this year. We both retired from the local electrical utility this year so we wonāt have to worry about that call coming in to go fix the power lines.
I am also Thankful for the Flow Hive Forum and Everyoneās help this year. I have learned so much from all of your posts and advice. My New Years Resolution is to take some more pictures and post them next year.
The girls have been put to bed for the winter and hopefully they will make it thru and will come out strong next spring.
Happy Holidays
From the amount of beer, wine and food consumed in Australia I think we have Thankgiving everyday.
Am glad you guys can make it an official day.
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Iām taking my Flow super out this winter, and leaving the langstroth frames in. Should I clean the flow frames while storing or leave with wax on, and wrap in glad wrap or something?
Hiya @southeyc - check out the previous thread on this, into the search space (magnifying glass in upper frame) type Storing Flow Frames for Winter & you will strike gold 
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last season we drained the frames of the honey- then put them beside the hive for a few days for the bees to clean- then immersed them in water to clean out any residues- then dried them- then stored them in a plastic tub with a lid. the wax looked quite messy by this stageā¦ when we re-installed them in spring the bees cleaned up the wax in no time at all.
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Here in the Perth suburbs, the FH expert was telling me that he leaves it on over winter. Our winter is mild compared to others 
Iām in Sydney and leave the Flow frames on over winter, just take some precautions to reduce condensation in the hive and add a winter mat above the brood box to help keep them warm.
Thanks. I have one langstrof on and just wanna down size for winterā¦ Our
house is in Sydney too, but faces south, so itās pretty cold all day. No
sunā¦
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Think Iāll try that this yearā¦ Thanks
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Be careful.
1.Perth is not a stranger to months of wet and windy weather on end.
Regardless the temperature if the bees canāt work they will have this big old flow super to keep warm.
2. Perth does have frosts in the suburbs. Lived in Greenmount for three years and saw my fair share of frosts. Couple of frosts in a row can knock your hive about something cruel.
Just saying. But Iām not a FH expert. 
I have removed my Flow Super.
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