Thanks for letting me vent. Just 60 more days and I will be having fun.
Eltalia, Bill, enjoy, have fun with the bees, enjoy the warm gentle winds and sunshine.
It sure is sunny Van... today This after near a week of patchy rain and the last three
days - downpour. But today was a "no shirt day". Luckily out here in the boonies
there are no younguns to be traumatised on spotting the shirtless ol' fart workin' bees.
I use a Samsung phone and a Samsung Galaxy tablet to record images.
Today I could get just 3 shots on the tablet before the temperature warning shut it
down. I tried the phone to find it only kept going if I put it in my pocket. It was hot
allright, an' even with a good 10knots of breeze ya still sweat like the beejeebas :-/
Still... it sure beats poloneck sweaters and dodgy furnaces :-)
Is this a good Honey year in your area? Looking at lots of honey are ya? I hope so.
I haven't been to my outyard for a week or so, and with this rain they are bound to
have slowed down some. Here in the home yard I did a full inspection today of all
nursed colonies to find all is good with some features of note worth reporting, one
of which is the advancement of my control skep. I am playing with three, trying
stuff out. The control is coming along nicely having started with maybe a thousand
young bees and a newly mated queen back in Nov. 2017, the other two were set in
mid December 2017 and are keeping pace with the control.
...pix of the control skep:
http://tinypic.com/r/9s400m/9http://tinypic.com/r/msdfrs/9Bill