To Bee Or Not To Be Honey
Introduction Post
This is my first post to a blog. It is my intent to post information I learn as I explore a new hobby of Bee Keeping.
I started Bee Keeping in December of 2019 when my wife, Elizabeth, gave me a hive and a bee keeping class for Christmas. We have a history of her giving me very unique gifts for Christmas include a Woodworking Lathe, A real ice cream making machine (as in it one that does not require freezing stupid cylinders in the freeze as it has a compressor to freeze the cream), A real cotton candy machine (as in one that you would find at the fair that can produce LOTS of cotton candy very quickly).
So in 2019 she decided that she would give me thousands of ladies all capable of stinging me with venom that hurts like hell. Hmm, how did we go from sweet things like ice cream and cotton candy to stinging insects, oh yeah during the summer of 2019 we went to the fair with the grand children and I spent time looking at the bee keeping exhibit (quite fascinating) and she decided it would keep my interest for a while.
On Christmas morning she had her friend Bob deliver the hive and tools (no bees). Along with this were two books on bees, a coupon for a bee keeping class in Snohomish, and a coupon for a package of bees.
I started Bee Keeping in December of 2019 when my wife, Elizabeth, gave me a hive and a bee keeping class for Christmas. We have a history of her giving me very unique gifts for Christmas include a Woodworking Lathe, A real ice cream making machine (as in it one that does not require freezing stupid cylinders in the freeze as it has a compressor to freeze the cream), A real cotton candy machine (as in one that you would find at the fair that can produce LOTS of cotton candy very quickly).
So in 2019 she decided that she would give me thousands of ladies all capable of stinging me with venom that hurts like hell. Hmm, how did we go from sweet things like ice cream and cotton candy to stinging insects, oh yeah during the summer of 2019 we went to the fair with the grand children and I spent time looking at the bee keeping exhibit (quite fascinating) and she decided it would keep my interest for a while.
On Christmas morning she had her friend Bob deliver the hive and tools (no bees). Along with this were two books on bees, a coupon for a bee keeping class in Snohomish, and a coupon for a package of bees.
I took the class and ordered the bees which would come April 15th of 2020. After reading both books and taking the class it was determined that you really need to start with two hives to have better odds of success. So I ordered more stuff and picked it up still waiting for the bees.
Then Covid hit and the world changed. After a lot of scrambling it was determined that bee keeping, being farming, had to continue as an essential service so I was able to pick up my bees as planned.
Then Covid hit and the world changed. After a lot of scrambling it was determined that bee keeping, being farming, had to continue as an essential service so I was able to pick up my bees as planned.
The Bees had arrived and now the fun would begin.
