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    A Surprise and a little help

    I had hoped to go over and add a super to my two vertical hives sometime this weekend, but I wanted some help with the lifting, and no one at home currently was totally thrilled about helping, but would have come if I asked. Everyone has a beesuit, some just enjoy using it more than others! Then, to my complete surprise, my daughter Elizabeth walked in fresh from PA! I had thought she wouldn't be home until Thanksgiving, so it was really exciting to see her! She is my prime bee helper, but has been gone to college for two years and stayed to work there this summer. So when I said, "would you like to help me put a couple supers on my hives?" She quickly said yes. Here she is in her bee

    July Field Day

    Isn't that a beautiful sight? Oh how I have waited to see that! It was a drippy day when we started on July 14, 2018, but the drips quickly stopped, and although it was cloudy it was not ominous and the bees were not upset. We started with the small hive, the one that started with only a Sasketraz queen and a couple of frames of brood about two weeks prior to the field day. It had expanded a tiny bit, and the queen had capped brood. We saw her, too. That hive needed a little help to build up, so the plan was to take a couple of frames of brood from the other vertical hive, which was the first nuc I started from Mary Bouma. So, we moved over there to open that hive, see where it was at a

    I Had an Excuse, sort of...

    It has been two whole weeks since I have even looked at my hives. I couldn't find my smoker, seriously, I couldn't. I needed it to display at my presentation for the historical society tonight. I couldn't find it anywhere at home, I surely must have left it by the hives, right? I know we have a field day in two days, but I wanted to find my smoker - or maybe I just wanted to say hi to my hives! Yes, I admit, I grabbed my beesuit and my hive tool - just to find my smoker, of course. My first happy sight upon coming up to the lane by my bees was the giant basswood tree dangling profuse spent blooms right over the lane just feet from the hives. That meant that sometime in the past two we

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