Sorry about the lateness of this post. But with visiting my bees once a week and going to the National Jamboree was kind-of distracting. This Friday I'm going to the beekeepers potluck meeting. I've wrote the thank you notes and will give a presentation at the November 5th meeting. I will also talk about my experience in my moms class. A while ago Stan and I extracted honey and I have a gallon of honey. It was a lot of fun taking some frames out and have bees chase me. We also did the getting ride of mights thing. Ya, That's whats happened. I'll make a post on Saturday, probably.

Thats too bad

I wasn't able to check my bees/queen on Saturday. It was rainy so the weather was bad enough that I couldn't check my bees, Oh well, I will check them hopefully tomorrow(Monday).

Starting my first hive!!!

I'm so excited. I got my package of bees on Saturday. I have my bees in the hive. I will visit them next Saturday again. Only 15 beestings. Not bad. I'm all good today.

Brother Stan at the back of his truck.I'm shaking my bees out.

Sixth hive in!

AHHHH!

Nationals, baseball tryouts, and my beekeeper class was all at the exact same time. I could only make it to the meeting for 10 minutes and that was all about how to move the frames to make sure your bees use the entire hive. Dad was there and he took notes and talked to me all about what i missed such as disease and mites. He took me back so I could dance and Stan stayed for the rest of the time. I got my hive parts with everything i need to make a hive. I got two brood boxes I've almost finished and a smoker a hat with veil and 4 gloves, 20 frames, inner cover, telescoping cover, bottom board and hive tool. I put everything together and just need to square and nail it all off. I'm really excited to finish and have it ready for when the bees come. The next class is in Lees' field. I will have some pics in a little of what I have.

Beekeeper potluck!

Yesterday I went to a beekeepers potluck. It was from 6-8pm. There was plenty of great foods that people had brought. It was really fun. Afterwards we were given a lesson on how to feed bees. I learned about patties and techniques on how to care for my bees more properly. The next meeting I will go to is next week. It is my second of three classes. I believe we will receive our hive and frames and whatever we won. Except far the bees. They come later once we have enough time to build our frames.

Just Started!

I just started, my brother Stan showed me what to do. I want to start bogging about beekeeping. I entered an essay in for the utah beekeepers association. I won first place. There were four first place winners, one grand prize and 14 second place. I received a hive with tools and a package of bees. I will be building my hive frames. I go to 3 classes that i got for free with my prize. Last saturday I went to the first class. This friday i will go to a potluck about beekeeping. I really excited to start and hope to be as good, hopefully better then my brother Stan who involved me into getting interested and writing an essay about bees.