Four Hives Of Bees and things on my kitchen table...
I'm home.
When I left, it was winter. I've come home to the kind of Spring that means that Summer is just rumbling around like someone shuffling his feet waiting to be invited into a room: temperatures in the 70s, everything green and warm and welcoming.
The best news is that all four hives of bees survived the winter. I wasn't sure that they would -- was pretty certain that the red hive (which swarmed last year) would be empty (it wasn't), but all the lessons from the previous y...
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Cynthia
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Apr 06, 2010 01:31PM
How cool that you keep bees! Up until a few years ago, I had this pipe dream that someday I would keep bees--I love them in the garden, and was simply fascinated by the whole idea of hives. . . But I brought my daughter when she was 6 to see these beekeepers in Central Maine and discovered how utterly TERRIFIED I was being surrounded by what they said was upwards of 80,000 bees! Ulp! My daughter was unfazed and even patted one of the queens who was surrounded by thousands of milling bees. She was ready to start caring for a hive immediately--lol!
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About then years ago we lived about 50 yards from the edge of an orange grove. A friends father asked if he could put some bees between us and the grove. We had 3 small children and asked about them getting stung but he said the would be safe. Even though we weren't 100% sure, we let him put the bees there and all the years they were they the never bothered us at all, no matter how close we got to them. It was facinating to watch him care for the hives.
