{"id":10084,"date":"2011-04-18T16:32:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10084"},"modified":"2011-04-18T16:32:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-18T22:32:03","slug":"bee-diary-april-18-2001","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10084","title":{"rendered":"Bee Diary:  April 18, 2001"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Bee Hiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>My bee pick up date and time has come.\u00a0 I get my gals around 2:30 pm on Saturday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m mostly ready, having prepared the hive boxes and the frames on Sunday.\u00a0 I need a couple of entrance reducers and a bottom board, but that&#8217;s no big deal.\u00a0 I have frozen pollen patties so I&#8217;m good there and the honey frames I&#8217;ve got in the hive boxes will feed my bees to begin, <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10085\" title=\"06-27-10_beekeeperastronaut\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/06-27-10_beekeeperastronaut-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"06-27-10_beekeeperastronaut\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/06-27-10_beekeeperastronaut-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/06-27-10_beekeeperastronaut.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>maybe enough to get them through to the dandelions.<\/p>\n<p>This is a new season and I&#8217;m hopeful that my increasing experience will make it a successful one.\u00a0 We plan to sell some honey this year, at least enough to cover package bee costs and equipment, perhaps turn a little profit.\u00a0 That entails finding a bee-proof spot to do the extracting; I&#8217;m hoping the garage will work.<\/p>\n<p>Went to see my dermatologist.\u00a0 No skin cancer.\u00a0 First time I&#8217;ve been checked, but, hey, this skin ain&#8217;t gettin&#8217; more pliable.\u00a0 He says once a year from now on.\u00a0 Now on until.\u00a0 Now on until death, I suppose.<\/p>\n<p>Another busy day with Leslie at 11:30, dermatologist and Woollies tonight.\u00a0 Heading out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Full Bee Hiving Moon My bee pick up date and time has come.\u00a0 I get my gals around 2:30 pm on Saturday.\u00a0 I&#8217;m mostly ready, having prepared the hive boxes and the frames on Sunday.\u00a0 I need a couple of entrance reducers and a bottom board, but that&#8217;s no big deal.\u00a0 I have frozen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=10084\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bee Diary:  April 18, 2001<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,1268],"tags":[1410,2417,2378,1763,2299],"class_list":["post-10084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-bees","tag-cancer","tag-dermatologist","tag-hiving","tag-honey","tag-pollen-patty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10086,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10084\/revisions\/10086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}