Sally's GF3 thread

[Sally PB]

My neighbor who had a heart attack 18 months ago passed this afternoon. I will miss her a lot.

Fly high and free, beautiful Jamie! Thank you for being a wonderful neighbor, chicken sitter, and friend.

 

[ShrekDawg]

My neighbor who had a heart attack 18 months ago passed this afternoon. I will miss her a lot.

Fly high and free, beautiful Jamie! Thank you for being a wonderful neighbor, chicken sitter, and friend.

 

[Sally PB]

Today one of our bee hives swarmed. This means that 1/2-2/3 of the bees and the queen left the hive to look for somewhere else to reside. I've never seen this happen; it was very interesting.

It was also frustrating, because we lost a hive of bees and we only have two. DH and I are very discouraged in our bee keeping adventure. This will be our 3rd summer and we have not gotten ONE DROP of honey. We know we must be doing something wrong, but we aren't finding out soon enough to correct the problem.

We have spend about $1200 on our bee adventure so far.

I asked DH what we have gotten out of it. He said we've gained knowledge and helped out with pollination locally. With that argument (the pollination, which is very important), we have no reason to quit; we have the investment in all the equipment (but might have to buy another colony of bees, and that's about $170-200).

I'd love to think that we're making all our mistakes/getting our bad luck at the beginning and that there will be a payoff in the near future. That we'll figure it out and get some honey for our efforts.

When we walked back from the hive, I said, "Well, we were in a car accident and walked away. And neither of us died yesterday. Things could be a whole lot worse and make this look like nothing."

Still, it is very discouraging.

 

[Sally PB]

Ok, some good news. It's raining, very hard. I will bet we're going to get a half inch out of this. I'll take it; I don't think we've had an inch of rain all month.

 

[saysfaa]

Won't the bees that are left raise a queen and keep going?