imagine if they took literally 1/1000th of the time and computing power that it takes to make a video of the US president degrading his nation and office, and instead applied it to making tax forms comprehensible to humans.

@realdollyparton.bsky.social 's seamstress FTW! (Sadly I couldn't fit this tag in the text of my post, but I'm grateful for her inspiration and the book on Dolly's stage clothing "Behind the Seams".)

This is the large swarm filling the super that was used to capture it. The queen is inside so you can see all the workers in front marching into the box. I have all the hives I need so they went to my friend who is a professional beekeeper.

Can you grow hazel? There are pricy blight resistant American Chestnuts available, but you need at least two and they'll take years to mature. There used to be a cultivated chestnut orchard in my county but it seems to have vanished.

Ruth Goodman has an interesting discussion about English medieval and tudor coppicing and pollarding in "The Domestic Revolution". It's an informative read.

With coppicing they are cut at ground level. Pollarding is done higher on the trunk. Good question!

Gina Barrett says the cores were wood of possibly an early form of paper mache.