Alive and well yet!!!

Sold some bees wax so have been melting that down to pour into 1 pound blocks and five pound blocks.
Smile

Really warm weather has came for a visit so we inspected the bee yards.
Crying or Very sad

four colonies at home didn't make it threw the winter. Only reason I see so far is the queen had started laying and the girls refused to leave the brood and ran out of food. There was lots of food remaining in all the dead outs.
Smile

On the good side all others (12) are alive and were flying about today. We have one remaining colony some miles away I haven't visited yet.
We are also sanding & scorching old hive bodies and getting them ready to stain then put the new familys in them. Have build a couple hunred frames but still need to place the wax foundation in them and roll the support wire in.

Shocked

I personally don't care for the new site design. I hate having huge numbers over lapping words as well as the words from the top line running into the bottom line. But I read enough of everyone elses post to relize it won't change any time soon.

Very Happy

Al

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eileen,

My counting was a bit mixed up when I posted we had 12 colonies left. Question

I suppose it was due to the happenings of the day. Crying or Very sad

Kare was at a doctors appointment with her dad, Crying or Very sad

I had just taken the dead hives apart and returned home from that to find the Sad

cat we kept in the house had passed on. I knew Kare was going to be Sad

upset over that and we were supposed to leave for a bee conferance when she returned home.

Very Happy

We still have 18 colonies left alive, Smile

We have 10 new queens on order, to divide 10 of the remaining hives. We also have 3 mimi colonies on order ( Smile

paid for in fact.) that we will build into regular full sized hives.
Very Happy

The bee conferance was great. Very Happy

After 4 years of keeping bees I met the fellow who got me started over the internet. Very Happy

We met a lot of new people and made many new friends. Laughing

We also got leads on where to buy more bees of the strain we want, 50 colonies going intonext winter here we come.

Frank, the whole text thing runs together for me. I find it awful hard to read for that reason.
It is really so much easier to read when I am replying (topic review) since the lettering isn't so big they run together.

Very Happy

Al

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