Last week I installed a new queen in the Hello Kitty (HK) hive and noticed that there was what looked to be some new capped brood from the original queen that I thought was dead. I also moved a couple of brood combs from BnB2 with the slight possibility that Read more…
This spring, BnB2 has perplexed me so much. The colony built up very quickly, filling up the hive and making queen cups early on. I kept thinking that they were going to swarm, but every time I’d do an inspection, there were no eggs or larvae in the queen cups. Read more…
Here’s the latest on my prostate cancer journey. The next post should be about doing a split on BnB2 which I hope to do this weekend. When I lived in California just after graduating from college, I remember driving up to San Francisco on I-280, passing over the Stanford Linear Read more…
Yesterday, the Boulder County Beekeepers Association (BCBA), sponsored a hive tour of local apiaries. Miles McGaughey, president of BCBA, organized and led the tours which encompassed a mix of hive styles and experience levels. The idea of the tour was to let other beekeepers watch one of us inspect our Read more…
In my last post, I mentioned that we had a cool and rainy May. June started out with a bang and we had our first 90+ day on Tuesday. Yesterday took the cake though, with severe thunderstorms, an hour of continuous lightning and thunder and a nearby tornado. After I Read more…
The sun is shining, the grass has riz, oh what a wonderful day it is! After one of the wettest and dreariest Mays on record, we are finally experiencing some of the famed Colorado sunshine again. I got 6.4″ of rain for the month of May and we didn’t hit Read more…
In an effort to keep anyone who is interested in my PCa progress, here’s the latest news. If you were looking for bee info, I’ll have another post soon on how they are doing. Last Wednesday, I got the gold markers (fiducials) placed in my prostate that are used by Read more…