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We'll not be crawling back in until we hit at least 51 degrees. So it's going to be a while. :D

Sorry I spaced it. Keeping up with this place took priority. LOL. We had plenty of warmer days that enabled us to climb inside all of our hives and check food supply and colony condition. Now we're dropping to 0 and lower at night. I have an idea to drop a probe thermometer in and leave it...

Oh ya. Everyone is home and tucked away for winter.

We'll go in this week when it cools down and see if we got the queen. We wanted to give the hive a month to settle, and now we want to do it on a day where the weather is more settled and not so windy. We MUST smoke these bees. (lightly of course)

OK, now where to begin? It's long, so grab a drink and kick back....... Every Friday morning from the end of April until mid October, I head to a neighbor's house 8 miles down in the valley (yes, here 8 miles is a neighbor. There are fewer than 8 houses between me and her.) to help her pick...

OH I FORGOT. OK I'm going to wash a long outside day off, and I'll start typing it up!

Ya, death by SnuSnu. How horrible!

Everytime I see a drone I imagine Animal from the muppets. Woman,Woman,Woman!

Baby bees are so cute and fuzzy wuzzy!

And drones have giant eyes.

Ya, I did that two weeks ago. But it was time for a mite check and a comb check and I was already a week late. So... in I went. I did it really quickly though. I felt bad, but now I'll leave them alone for a bit. I'm done gathering honey for the year. It's time for them (in the TopBar) to...

Absolutely! My neighbors Italians are grumpy butts. Mine are much better! I've worked woth both on the same day/same weather/ temps. There is an obvious difference. Lower honey production though, but not huge.

My babys hard at work back in June.

And my carniolans

Nope. Making honey while there is pollen around takes water. This time of year it means more flying for less pollen. Hard work man!

Enjoy your read! Keep in mind that you're basically making a human accessible hollow log for the bees!

Those look like honey bees. But there's only 4000 species of bees in the US. LOL. Mine aren't mean except when protecting the hive. They'd rather move out of the way than go after you any where else.

Now am on my larger laptop, inside. I'll take a look.

Could be a solitary bee like a mason bee. They're docile and don't sting.

Tv Thats why i lime the top bar. I built it. Bought a suit and smoker. . Hive tool is an old kitchen knife. Strainer for honey os an old kitchen seive. Nothing else needed. No extractors. No spinners. No frames. . No foundations to replace. Ok I did buy those two books. But I'm a book person.