It's been very rainy here lately which hopefully will lead to tons of flowers blooming for the bees by the time they get here.
Tonight is a meeting of the Maumee Valley Beekeepers Assoc which I will attend and join. I am hoping huband will come along. Severe social anxiety makes things like this rather difficult for me. I'm feeling it in the pit of my stomach already.
On the next non-rainy day I will paint the outside of the topfeeder and put "my" hive where I want it. Since we can't agree on things, hubs will put his in a different location in the yard - which may be helpful for the bees if nothing else they are less likely to get confused between hives - whether or not that makes a difference is yet to be seen.
Meeting people is hard, but hopefully will be helpful in our venture. I also found that a couple at our church has this great website:
http://www.ueitoledo.com/
I don't know the couple yet, but perhaps will meet them tonight. We'll see!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Delivery today!
Today we are expecting to receive our beekeeping equipment. Unfortunately, it's a super rainy cold day so far. I hope it clears up later so we can play with stuff and begin setting it up!
It will still be several weeks before we get our bees and there is a good chance that it's too late in the season to be hope for any honey for us this year. Still, if we get them to settle in and make enough honey for themselves to survive the winter - we will consider it a great success for our first year!
I'm pretty excited!
It will still be several weeks before we get our bees and there is a good chance that it's too late in the season to be hope for any honey for us this year. Still, if we get them to settle in and make enough honey for themselves to survive the winter - we will consider it a great success for our first year!
I'm pretty excited!
Sunday, April 3, 2011
Waiting
Not much new happening on the bee front.
The charge from Dadant came through on our credit card, but no UPS tracking is available yet so I assume it hasn't been shipped. We have time, so that's ok.
I found out the time and location of the local beekeeper's association meetings and they are quite local. There's one coming up in a few weeks and we hope to attend.
Waiting is not my strong suit. It's still pretty cold some days here, though, so I know it will work out for the best. Life goes on as it is spring break at Kiddo's school this week and we will find ways to keep busy.
The charge from Dadant came through on our credit card, but no UPS tracking is available yet so I assume it hasn't been shipped. We have time, so that's ok.
I found out the time and location of the local beekeeper's association meetings and they are quite local. There's one coming up in a few weeks and we hope to attend.
Waiting is not my strong suit. It's still pretty cold some days here, though, so I know it will work out for the best. Life goes on as it is spring break at Kiddo's school this week and we will find ways to keep busy.
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