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Posted in Visitors to the beeyard on Sep 22nd, 2010
Jerod is the first person other than me to work in my hives. He’s also the first person to visit the bees who wants to keep a hive himself…and I trust the way Jerod works, so there you go. In anticipation of getting his first hives next spring, he’s been reading The Complete Idiot’s Guide [...]
Posted in Hive Management on Sep 21st, 2010
Here’s the good news as promised, Reader. The bad news, as you’ll recall, is that the bees from the tree have now been combined with the Girls of Summer, and the small swarm I collected last week absconded. But on Sunday’s inspection of the remaining four hives, I found two absolutely gorgeous queens at work. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 20th, 2010
I have good news, and I have bad news, Reader. Let’s go with the bad news first and get it over with. It’s not the worst news in the world, and we all sort of knew it was coming anyway. And better that it came early rather than late. Everyone said it would happen, and [...]
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 [...]