Heh I considered ordering a few packages, but decided my skill s at raising queens and splitting hives were second to none! (LOL) Okay so maybe not, but I will manage, mostly because the bees tend to fix my screw ups....
I wish I had the option of staying home, but the wifes demands MUST be met.. i still have some work to do on the fish camp, and the wife is in Maine right now picking up her mother... Alzheimers is getting worse, and the brotherinlaw was threatening to put her in a home... AFTER he threw a fit because we were bringing her out here.. so.. off to his house she went... We backed out on the duplex we were going to buy, and bought this fish camp on the Mississippi, intending to take two or three years to remodel... Three weeks after we closed, brotherinlaw calls and says he cant handle it shes going in a home... and he wonders why I swore at him, called him names and threatened him with physical harm... He seems to have no clue why i am ticked off at him... So now Every dime we had is dumped into the fish camp to get it ready for motherinlaw... NOT a good house for her, WAY too small,, but, we are locked in, and motherinlaw IS NOT going to go into a home for the elderly if we can help it...
Which.. translates into me spending a lot of time in Illinois instead of taking care of the bees, the house, the new building, etc, etc, etc... I'm getting older, and it seems that life is intent on keeping me from doing the things I want and NEED to do.. but, i will endeavor to persevere... I will MAKE time to take care of the bees this year no matter what.... I have to mow this yard {5 hours} every third or forth day in spring and summer, so I will take an extra couple hours to manage the bees, then drive the 1.5 hours back to the fish camp.. 3 hours round trip.. every three/four days... Life just got un fun again. But we do what we have to do.