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Spring is Here! (?)


It felt like spring today!  Winter has seemed so long this year and even though I know I am deluded to think winter is really over, how can you resist believing the warmer weather is here to stay?  
Last spring I decided to "get into bees" and set up a hive and ordered a box of bees.    Several days before the bee package was due to arrive, I fell and broke my back - no spinal cord damage but two crushed vertebrae.  So, when the call came that the bees had arrived I was unable to drive to pick them up and my poor, unsuspecting husband had to go off to get them.  I should hasten to add at this point that he was definitely NOT interested in getting into bees.    
He was even less interested in driving home for an hour with a mesh box full of approximately 10,000 annoyed honeybees in the back seat.  I have to say he is a good sport.  So, he got the queen and her attendants all situated in the hive and I have had very little to do with them until now.  As you can see above, today I donned my bee jacket. I went out to try to assess how they managed getting through the winter.  I got the two top lids off and my assessment is that they got through VERY well!  Or at least there are a lot more than there were when we started out last year.  Today's whole experiment came to a quick stop when both the bees and I realized that my gloves were not sting proof.  Tomorrow is another day... Took my mind off COVID for awhile though!

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