What a great day in Boulder Creek. 4th of July 2016… !
Category Archives: Stores and Shops
New Store: Lovebites Sweets To Go
Right in downtown beside New Leaf… looks really good!
“Lovebites Sweets To Go is focused on providing high-quality baked good, sweets and candies and store hours are Tuesday-Thursday from 7am to 6pm and Friday – Sunday 7am to 8pm. Click HERE to view their website.
VOTE: Best Brewery in the Santa Cruz – Boulder Creek Brewery
KPIG is asking Santa Cruz residents to vote for their favorite brewery and Boulder Creek Brewery is in the running. Right now they are in second place……
If you’d like to support our local Brewery click HERE to go vote! It just takes a few seconds to vote.
Christmas in Boulder Creek
Boulder Creek’s annual Holiday celebration was a great time this year. Music on the streets, a visit from Santa, the great tree lighting and wagon rides!
Halloween in Boulder Creek
Happening now!
ANTS! What they are and How to Get Rid of Them
This time of year many in Boulder Creek are dealing with pesky little ants. Ever wondered where they come from and how to beat em? Doug Conrad from Boulder Creek Hardware has written a really informative article all about ants. The article is below. If you ever have any questions on building, terminating, cutting, painting etc… head over and ask Doug or Ann Marie at Boulder Creek Hardware.
Doug’s How To:
Whether they are in your pants or at your picnic, ants are amazing little creatures; well maybe not in your pants. Like bees, ants are social creatures with a social structure of workers and queens. I’ve always been amazed at these little guys and in researching for this article I came across even more interesting facts about ants than anyone in Boulder Creek would care to know. But I have to bore you with a few of them. It is estimated that there are over 22,000 species of ants and only 12,500 have been classified. Sometimes their colonies can number in the millions and they exist on almost every land mass on earth. That’s a lot of ants. They can range in size from a super tiny .03 of an inch to just over 2 inches long. Most are black or red but there are some that have a metallic luster. The life span of ants increases according to the hierarchy. Since the fertile males are at the lowest rung, they live only for a few weeks. Worker ants are a little higher up, so they live for 2 – 3 years. Queen ants live the longest, with a lifespan of almost 25 – 30 years!
Customers often come in thinking they have termites when actually they have ants. Yes, some ants have wings. These are usually the male drones but the queen will have wings for the early part of her life. You can tell the difference between an ant and a termite by the wings. A termite’s wings are both the same size, ants are different sizes. Termites have straight antennae and ants are bent. It’s hard to tell but the ant’s waist is slender and the termites are not as much. That’s the basic difference between these two, but do you know what you get if you cross ants with tics? All sorts of antics!
Around here we basically have two types of ants that most of us consider pests. Continue reading
The Bar is Open – Boulder Creek Brewery
From Winslow, the head brewer:
The bar is back open! We have completed our brewery floor renovation and we’re celebrating with extended happy hour, a fresh batch of Dragon’s Breath IPA, and a very special beer. “The Trapper” is our Brettanomyces conditioned pale ale inspired by our favorite Brett. finished Trappist ale. Herbal hop aromas are complimented by a delicate fruitiness from wild yeast, creating a subtle ale with an unsurpassed depth of flavor.
