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supers on over two hive boxes, the management practice for them will let them die off naturally at the end of the season.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to a better honey harvest than last year, but we’ll see. It’s still early days.<\/p>\nMid-Summer\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Honey Flow Moon<\/p>\n
All three colonies now have honey supers.\u00a0 I put two on the parent colony for 2012 today after a full reversal of the three hive boxes.\u00a0 The other two colonies now have four honey supers on over two hive boxes, the management practice for them will let them die off naturally at the end of the season.\u00a0 I’m looking forward to a better honey harvest than last year, but we’ll see. It’s still early days.<\/p>\n
Next year I’m going to move all new packages into hive boxes set out at the perimeter of the current location which will put them all in the sun while maintaining their protection from the wind.<\/p>\n
So far this whole season I have had one sting, the result of working all three colonies a week ago with no gloves and only the veil.\u00a0 These are friendly, or at least incurious, bees.<\/p>\n
Shifting my workout back to the morning, where I had it for many years, has gotten the desired result, more consistency.\u00a0 The downside is that I wander around in the afternoon and early evening ( like now) not knowing exactly what to do.\u00a0 I’ll have to mend this somehow, and I will over time as I adjust to this new routine.<\/p>\n
Kate and I went out today while I did the banking and picked up meds.\u00a0 She stayed in the truck until we got to Applebees, her new favorite restaurant.\u00a0 Not mine, but it’s not bad.\u00a0 A little down market for my taste.\u00a0 Having Kate out a week after her surgery is both amazing and pleasing.\u00a0 She’s my sweetie and I like spending time with her.<\/p>\n
Brother Mark has begun to get some job nibbles.\u00a0 He got a haircut and beard trim today that cost him $28.\u00a0 That seemed high to his Bangkok tuned financial sensitivities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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