Fun Times at Crossroads Hive....

Is it tomorrow already?  It came way too early!  Maybe I don't love Tomorrow so much after all!

Must have caffeine before we start.

'Tis the fuel of men!

Got up too early.  We have to wait until it is 60* to go into the hives....  Dad-gum!! I could have slept another ten minutes....

The way cool way to feed weak hives...  Put a hive body around feeders with sugar water.  I am very excited about the ice cream carton tops underneath.  My own addition.  They will catch any drips and put the water into the edge so that my bees don't drown.  (In theory, anyway....)

My wonderful husband brushing bees off of the frame of brood that we are stealing from hive #14 for hive #11....  It is a very soft bristled brush and they are going right back into their own hive.  Love the pattern on this frame.  See the "U"?

Do you see the queen?  If I took the right picture from the camera, she is here...

Breakfast?  Yum, yum!

Bees having breakfast.  Give me Hotcakes and Sausage any day!

Hives all settled and ready for manufacturing HONEY!

Purple Plum Jam, anyone?

The PB brothers chowing down on milk!  Blu is the one with his best face forward...

Flower.  Waiting for milking.

Sleek and shiny Monkey.  Copper makes a world of difference in this girl.

Beautiful OBF Almond Joy.  See the line of darker brown?  That is her true color.  More signs of copper making a difference.  Slowly but surely.  She is one stunning girl!

Quisi's gorgeous girls, Charm and Dream.  I love these two.

Flower's babies, Wild Thyme and English Rose.  Two peas in a pod!  Just like Momma!

The Silver Skipper.

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He is friendly!  Definitely one of the best bucklings we have had here.  Very proud of him and his brother!

The Random Gal says that this needs a wrap up sentence and a signature.  So, Predictable Tin Mom says - milk, honey and pork are good and good for you.  Eat up, kiddos.  (Does that work, Heather?) PS:  Plum Jam is good, too.

~The Tin Mom

Little Orphan Annie has nothing on me....

Wow, things have been crazy busy! Rand and I re-queened hive #11 last Monday. That hive did not look strong at all. We plan to take some brood from hive #14 tomorrow. Hopefully it isn't too late to give the new queen a chance. We probably should have done that last week, but needed to talk to our mentor first. Heather should help me post my thousand words (pictures) tomorrow. It was difficult to take good pics with the gloves on, but I do have a few. I plan to take some more tomorrow... Our super awesome mentor gave me a secret to make sure that the strong hives don't steal sugar water from the weaker ones - so we can stop feeding all but the weakest hives. Rand will be very happy, since he has been stung four times giving those strong and mean stinkers water.... I plan to take pics of how to feed weak hives tomorrow as well... The goaties are doing great. We are getting several gallons of milk twice each day. Quisi is being milked only in the evening and is producing a gallon a day! The Pork-Butts, Red, White, and Blue are getting fat and happy on all of the goatie milk we have left over for them! there are pics of the PBs on my camera, waiting to be posted tomorrow. Copper had made an enormous difference in our goatie girls. I have several thousand words for Heather to post on that, as well. It is amazing what some yogurt and copper rods can do!O Okay. It is late and I am getting cranky and tired (standard operating procedure, just ask the children) so I will sign off now and post some wonderful pics tomorrow... Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow, you're only a day away.... Ps. This is not Random Gal. This is Predictable Mom.