Post by queenbee on May 13, 2008 22:38:24 GMT -4
Made it back from the bee yard and grumpy lives another day. 
You can't stab anybody with a hive tool, it's only an accessory.
Got there at 6:45 and made it home around 9:00.
Had 2 swarms. Way up high about 75 foot in a tree. Grumpy decided he was going to use
the ladder and take the chain saw with him and climb up there and cut the limb off. There were like 6 branches. He was up the ladder and I said to him politely. "I just want to let you know right now that I don't think this is a very good idea. But do what you want, cause we have accident insurance we have paid for and never used, we can get our money back in a ER visit". He decided to cut the whole limb off close to where he was. So we got it cut and the queen found and combined it with another hive.
The bees evidently didn't care that we paid $12 each for the queens, they killed some of them anyway and made their own. Grumpy wasn't happy. After about 20 minutes I told him, "I know you are spoiling for a fight, but I ain't fighting with you, so just hush". Grumpy was upset that the bees had killed the $12 queens.
But we have some hives that are now 4-5 supers high and we will have some wildflower honey. I tried some honey straight out of the hive, it was made with Poplar, I didn't like it but grumpy did. They have several more weeks of honey making and it will be good then.
I had about 100 stings in my coveralls and gloves. Underneath my bee suit I wear overalls and a tank top. It gets really hot in that bee suit. Well we were finishing up and I was standing there and realized 2 bee's were crawling between my.... uhmmm... bosoms.
EEEEK! got them without an incident. My veil ties down over the top of my suit, so evidently I have an opening somewhere. It's not as bad as one getting inside your veil, with it still on your head, that happened too. But it all worked out.
You can't stab anybody with a hive tool, it's only an accessory.
Got there at 6:45 and made it home around 9:00.
Had 2 swarms. Way up high about 75 foot in a tree. Grumpy decided he was going to use
the ladder and take the chain saw with him and climb up there and cut the limb off. There were like 6 branches. He was up the ladder and I said to him politely. "I just want to let you know right now that I don't think this is a very good idea. But do what you want, cause we have accident insurance we have paid for and never used, we can get our money back in a ER visit". He decided to cut the whole limb off close to where he was. So we got it cut and the queen found and combined it with another hive.
The bees evidently didn't care that we paid $12 each for the queens, they killed some of them anyway and made their own. Grumpy wasn't happy. After about 20 minutes I told him, "I know you are spoiling for a fight, but I ain't fighting with you, so just hush". Grumpy was upset that the bees had killed the $12 queens.
But we have some hives that are now 4-5 supers high and we will have some wildflower honey. I tried some honey straight out of the hive, it was made with Poplar, I didn't like it but grumpy did. They have several more weeks of honey making and it will be good then.
I had about 100 stings in my coveralls and gloves. Underneath my bee suit I wear overalls and a tank top. It gets really hot in that bee suit. Well we were finishing up and I was standing there and realized 2 bee's were crawling between my.... uhmmm... bosoms.
EEEEK! got them without an incident. My veil ties down over the top of my suit, so evidently I have an opening somewhere. It's not as bad as one getting inside your veil, with it still on your head, that happened too. But it all worked out.
