

Winter Ready
I hadn't checked my hives since October, because there is nothing I can do at this point, and they are not handy to just drop in and look at. I got an email from the Kalamazoo bee club last week reminding us to make sure the hives were prepared for high winds, since one of their hives had been blown over in a recent windstorm. This picture shows our double story hive as it was when I left it. Notice I left the rock - the nice big, heavy rock - laying on the ground behind i