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Posted in Equipment on Oct 18th, 2011
The good news is…I am almost satisfied with my beekeeping hat. The bad news is…almost isn’t good enough. Which means the quest for the perfect beekeeping hat continues. Currently, I wear a dang good hat. I found it online, ordered it, and have worn it for months now. Then I went to the Apple store [...]
Posted in Poetry on Oct 16th, 2011
The River of Bees BY W.S. MERWIN In a dream I returned to the river of bees Five orange trees by the bridge and Beside two mills my house Into whose courtyard a blindman followed The goats and stood singing Of what was older Soon it will be fifteen years He was old he will [...]
Posted in Bee Removal on Oct 13th, 2011
I receive a lot of calls for bee removals at this time of year. This is a lousy time of year to remove honeybees, and, believe me, it’s a tough challenge to encourage homeowners to live throughout the winter with their hive of bees as housemates. Asking some people to live with their honeybees is [...]
Posted in Beeyard on Oct 7th, 2011
Did I tell you, Reader, that Jerod keeps his bees at his grandparents’ place where there is quite a bit of open land and a couple of massive gardens? Earlier this week, Jerod took me for a stroll into the thick weeds of the open lot—once the bees arrived last spring, Jerod’s grandfather stopped all [...]
Posted in Swarm on Apr 15th, 2011
You know, I wait all winter long…think all winter long…plan and build all winter long…and still I am late when it comes to execution. Well, maybe not late, but certainly not early. I think it’s swarm season, and as of yesterday I still hadn’t hung my home-built swarm boxes in their trees. So, yesterday I [...]
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 Honeybee Adventures on Jul 15th, 2010
I put my name out on the internet as a honeybee-swarm collector, and I’ve been getting tons of calls to remove bees from structures…like log cabins, etc. Every day someone calls about bees. I want to collect swarms, but I don’t do “cut outs.” However, this morning I got a call from our friend, Don, [...]