Mike Barkley

First off ... I don't do macaroni & cheese. I make fresh sourdough egg noodles for the occasion. So much tastier than store bought pasta, in my opinion. Cook the pasta in very salty water.

My cheese preference is a sharp white cheddar, asiago and/or parmesan, and white American cheese. Roughly equal amounts of each. I don't consider American cheese to be real cheese but it melts good & helps the other cheeses blend together. Sometimes I make a roux first then melt the cheeses into that. Or else just melt the cheese into some milk & butter (or bacon grease instead of butter). Add salt & pepper to taste. A little nutmeg or paprika gives it a nice extra boost.

The next step is mix the cheese sauce into the pasta. Pour into a cast iron skillet then sprinkle more unmelted cheese on top. Bake in a cast iron skillet until it's all bubbly & delicious.

Now I'm officially hungry.

Welcome to permies Daniel.

Good luck with that. I might be wrong but I don't think it's nearly warm enough up there for mesquite. Maybe harness some heat from the Canadian wildfires???

You know it's summertime in Texas when you step outside and WHAM the heat hits you like a ton of bricks. In my opinion it's far better than -20 below zero. Been there done that. Didn't like it one bit.

Then if it were mine I would use it as a meat tenderizer.

That looks like a leather working tool used to mark stitch locations. Does tightening the screw on the end lock the discs into place?

pigs

I'm still having trouble understanding how this would do much to control varroa mites. Sure, there would be few brood at first but it seems like that would increase quickly.

It also seems that since bees respond & act mostly due to queen pheromones two queens would confuse both sets of workers.

Bees are so fascinating. The more one learns about them the more they realize how little we humans know.

That's an interesting concept.

Dual queens? How does that work?

A class I took said blue flowers are their favorite.

A safe supply of water is good too. Sugar might be good too. That somewhat depends on if there is enough natural forage for them. In your area at this time of year I suspect sugar might be very welcomed by them.