Collin Stubblefield

@caliphas.bsky.social

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Beekeeper, husband, cat dad, middle-aged motorcyclist and pedestrian anime fan who peaked back in 2014-15. 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇯🇵🇺🇦🇲🇽🇨🇦🇵🇸 Oh and BTW, you 🫵 are awesome

5.5 gallons of mead in the making. Already frothing and fermenting.
Open air bee hive outside a doorway
Stench of the Deceased by Vile
Hiyashi Chuka cold noodles with vegetables
Honey on a bee frame
Acacia trees, mostly Huisache but there’s 1 cat claw acacia
Bees in a column outside someone’s house. The homeowner ended up with 4 jars of honey. I don’t eat honey from bee removals lol
Huisache tree seedlings
Tofu frying
5 nucleus bee colonies and a wheelbarrow under a shade canopy
Patch of dewberries
Texas purple thistle flower
Horsemint flower with sorrel that hasn’t quite bloomed yet
Yaupon bush with bees collecting nectar
Toadflax flowers
Honey extractor in a garden cart
Bunch of small, colorful signs at a crossroads. They point in the direction of peoples’ houses (I assume)
2008 Prius with green honey supers
Making some fresh syrup for a couple of small bee yards
Mixing up pollen substitute
Bottom board that still needs to be glued and stapled. Then on to paint and screen.
Bottom boards for bees being made
Everything is covered in ice 🥶
Reflectix double bubble insulation for bee hive lids
Honey bee plastic mini mating nucs
Van full of bee equipment
Just finished making 8-frame hive lids
5 boxes of Langstroth bee hive frames.
Sunflower blooming in January
My beautiful wife and I in the Book Off in Houston!
My van, Barry, gutted.
Bee hive inner covers
Mr. Gao San needed some pumps
Bees from a tree removal orientating themselves to their new box
Gao San on the heat blanket
Mistletoe on a mesquite tree
Getting that last pint of honey out
Lentil soup recipe
No Kings protest Austin
Wally Brando from Twin Peaks
Bees from a removal in a langstroth bee hive.
Peggy the Tenere 700 getting warmed up
My wife on her new motorcycle :)
Bee box with hive from removal, with a makeshift entrance reducer.
Bees went to find their royal highness, the queen.
Bees marching into a box to get to their queen
Praying mantis on a hive lid
Near the Tower of Americas in San Antonio
Peggy the Tenere 700