Tired of having boats taking up space under the tractor shed, I built a bigger boat rack.
As you can see, some patches were required. The steel roofing came from niece Peggy’s neighboring house, where she had some roof replaced after Hurricane Helene. The roofers were going to throw away the old roof. Nope, now some of it is boat rack roof, basically fancy sunshade.
The three canoes belong to WWALS, as does the jon boat and outboard.
The other boats are ours. Continue reading
Fortunately, when the bee tree snapped off, it broke above the bee hive. So our pollinating native bees are still humming in and out of there. Their exit used to be on the other side of the tree, but they’re using this new entrance now.
I guess they will relocate, but at least they did not get suddenly evicted.
The bee tree was far from the largest of the fourteen big trees down we’ve counted so far. Two more were less than a hundred feet away towards the cypress swamp. Continue reading
![[Rack full]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2025-03-31--boat-rack/20250331_110115.jpg)
![[Bee hive in bee tree stob]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-07-14--trees-down-bees/20210714_122853.jpg)