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Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Aug 26th, 2010
We’re sort of waiting in limbo here about removing the bees from their tree. Our wonderful arborist, David Shaw (whom I adore), is busy securing permission to access the tree via property owned by whoever owns the big field next to the tree. We’ll need to access the tree via this big field; and then, [...]
Posted in Protective clothing on Aug 22nd, 2010
Do you like my new hat and veil combination? I do. But I’m still not sure I’m tying the veil correctly, and bees occasionally visit me on the inside of it. It’s always the littlest things that give me fits.
Posted in Going Naked on Aug 18th, 2010
I think I’m probably a shitty beekeeper. I watch videos of others working their bees, and they look so calm and confident. I’m sure a video of me would show me standing there swatting at bees and looking confused. And inevitably I get a darn bee inside my veil. Trying to figure out which side [...]
Posted in Education on Jul 31st, 2010
Sometime during the day yesterday, I got bored. Maybe because 13 hours of anything just wears me out…I’ve been slipping away from the conference. I slip out of the room and outside to the sun. I take long walks in the woods. I slip into the car and drive to the hotel for a nap. [...]
Posted in Education on Jul 30th, 2010
I’ve found my people. (I found my people after getting pretty crazily lost in Boston. I must have passed Fenway Park 3 or 4 times. I swear to you…I could smell the hot dogs before I spotted Fenway. No lie.) Eventually I got back on track and made it to Leominster, Massachusetts in time for [...]
Posted in Honeybee Adventures on Jul 28th, 2010
I know you wonder what on earth I wear out there with the bees. Here it is. Cute, but hot.
Posted in Hive Management on Jul 20th, 2010
Success! Yesterday I inserted a box I fashioned from two shallows between my two brood boxes in Girls of Summer. They’re the most robust of our colonies, and they’ve been mighty crowded and hot and bearding like crazy. So, I pulled deep frames of brood up from the bottom box and into the center of [...]
Posted in Education on Jun 27th, 2010
I rode that scooter of mine all the way out to the Creation Museum and then completely forgot to take a single picture of Doug or of his bees there or of anything at the museum. What on earth is wrong with me? You know, I’m just not a big picture taker, and I completely [...]
Posted in Beekeeping Philosophy on Jun 24th, 2010
A question arose on one of the forums I read: Do you talk to your bees? Well, of course I do. I can’t imagine not. After a while, you know, I believe we get to know one another. I already ask them to forgive me for squishing them, to tell me what they’re doing, to [...]
Posted in Education on Jun 22nd, 2010
So I sent out a plea on the TriState Beekeeper forum asking for a mentor. You know, in an entire year of keeping bees, I’ve never seen another person working a hive. Sure, I’ve watched videos on YouTube until I’m blue in the face, but I’ve got questions, dang it. And this morning, I received [...]