A Spring Day
It's a tease, I know that. Soon the polar vortex will swoop down and give us the coldest temperatures of the winter. I think this will be it, Old Man Winter's last hurrah, but also know better than to get too cocky. More schizophrenic than that crazy Aunt with all the cats, we are going to go from 61° and sunny to 35° with snow and rain this weekend. It looks like we are not going to get the once forecasted low of 12° that was predicted not so long ago. Now it looks like we will bottom out in the twenties for a couple of nights. Nothing these bees can't handle. It was nice enough to take a peak. We wanted to make sure the gals had enough sugar brick left to hole up for the next couple of weeks, and I'll do my best to leave them bee. We even took the opportunity to dig into one of the stronger hives. They had eaten a good portion of their sugar brick, so we could manipulate frames without making too much of a mess. We found the queen navigating a frame of brood. She had ...