{"id":13556,"date":"2012-03-27T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13556"},"modified":"2016-05-02T09:35:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:35:40","slug":"bee-protein-and-surge-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13556","title":{"rendered":"Bee Protein and Surge Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_2495.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13557\" title=\"pollen patty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_2495-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_2495-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_2495.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Pollen patties came today. (see right) I&#8217;ll be out with the bees tomorrow, weather permitting. \u00a0They need the pollen patties for protein which they can&#8217;t yet find in adequate supply. \u00a0That means the season will have well and truly begun.<\/p>\n<p>To add to that sense we had, as we might expect in <strong>late April or early May<\/strong>, thunderstorms this morning around 5 am. \u00a0They woke the dogs, who began barking, barking, barking. \u00a0Well, I had to get up anyway to shut down our complement of electronic devices, so I let the dogs out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been shutting down computers and modems and routers for 18 years and have never had a problem. \u00a0My suspicion is that this is something I no longer need to do; but, like an old hoss, I always follow the path to the barn. \u00a0Even though the barn got pulled down years ago.<\/p>\n<p>When we first moved in, I had the electrician install surge protectors in the main junction box to forestall any lightning caused jump in current from frying our computers. \u00a0He thought this was the silliest idea, but I was paying so he did it anyhow. \u00a0That&#8217;s why I say I think I no longer need to do it. \u00a0Those surge protectors are still lit up after all these years.<\/p>\n<p>The route in that&#8217;s not protected is the cable from the cable junction box which sits at the northeastern edge of our property line. \u00a0If a lightning bolt hit it, that could fry the modem and the routers. \u00a0Again, never a problem.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Bee Hiving Moon Pollen patties came today. (see right) I&#8217;ll be out with the bees tomorrow, weather permitting. \u00a0They &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=13556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bee Protein and Surge Protection<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1268,23,3],"tags":[2297,4028],"class_list":["post-13556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-geekworld","category-weather-climate","tag-pollen-patties","tag-surge-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36257,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13556\/revisions\/36257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}