Worldwide Beekeeping
Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: shinjak on May 09, 2014, 09:58:25 am
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I experienced several firsts yesterday. Picked up my first nucs, built my first frames, lit my smoker for the first time, donned my makeshift protective equipment for the first time, installed the two nucs into my hives (sting free!) for the first time, and got stung by one of my bees for the first time. You can read every how-to book ever made, but experience is definitely the best teacher. (And experience taught me yesterday to not mess with the bees right before it gets dark!)
I have the same feeling that I had when I got my first chickens fifteen years ago: I may never be bee-less again.
That and I see Saturdays being tied up for awhile. :)
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I always tell my wife I could always trade this for a Corvette. ;D Welcome to the world of Beekeeping or in my case bee trying.
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Those girls will lock up your Saturdays!
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Congratulations on all of those firsts! There will be many, unexpected more I'm sure. I hope to do my first cut out tomorrow.
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Just make sure to take a picture of that first drop of honey when you are extracting for the first time! ;)
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Excellent and welcome to the habit. 8)
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Next on list the first taste of your bees honey. ;)
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That is a first that I am really looking forward to!
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Congrats! 8)
Another Beek has been made! :laugh:
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Thanks everyone. I'm definitely looking forward to that first taste of honey!
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Oh yes, the honey, yummmm. My favorite way to eat honey besides comb, is in the yard when the summer heat is still in it. 8)
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Okay folks, we can add another name to the list of firmly hooked addicts. :laugh:
Welcome Shinjack, the highs you'll be getting from beekeeping are not only legal but they're beneficial too, any way you look a it. You've made a good choice and joined a nice crowd. :)
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Blue ""My favorite way to eat honey besides comb, is in the yard when the summer heat is still in it.""
Something magical about that Blue! like standing in the middle of a swarm. I break off a chunk of gooey comb and run around the property looking for hubby to share ~
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"I experienced several firsts yesterday.
Picked up my first nucs,
built my first frames,
lit my smoker for the first time,
donned my makeshift protective equipment for the first time,
installed the two nucs into my hives (sting free!) for the first time,
got stung by one of my bees for the first time.
(And experience taught me yesterday to not mess with the bees right before it gets dark!)
I may never be bee-less again."
hello, my name is shinjack and i am from north carolina. i think i have a bee problem......... :D :D :D
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"I experienced several firsts yesterday.
Picked up my first nucs,
built my first frames,
lit my smoker for the first time,
donned my makeshift protective equipment for the first time,
installed the two nucs into my hives (sting free!) for the first time,
got stung by one of my bees for the first time.
(And experience taught me yesterday to not mess with the bees right before it gets dark!)
I may never be bee-less again."
hello, my name is shinjack and i am from north carolina. i think i have a bee problem......... :D :D :D
LOL! WWBA will get him all squared away with that problem. ;D
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"Those girls will lock up your Saturdays!"
And Sundays
And Mondays
And Tuesdays
" Wednesdays
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;D
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Yeah, that would be about right ;)
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hello, my name is shinjak and i am from north carolina. i think i have a bee problem......... :D :D :D
I think that may be my new forum signature. :) I seriously considered taking a lawn chair and just sitting and watching the bees yesterday. That would probably affirm my wife's concerns about my sanity. This thread is reminding me why WWBK is the best bee forum on the net.
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Anticipation going to kill em. Anyone want to bet his first taste of honey is in the beeyard
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"hello, my name is shinjack and i am from north carolina. i think i have a bee problem......... :D :D :D"
"I think that may be my new forum signature. :) I seriously considered taking a lawn chair and just sitting and watching the bees yesterday. That would probably affirm my wife's concerns about my sanity. This thread is reminding me why WWBK is the best bee forum on the net."
........ :D
i stand corrected....
hello, my name is shinjack and i am from north carolina. i HAVE a bee problem........ :laugh:
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Do it SJ.. Mix a drink, take the most comfy chair you have, and go sit a few feet and to one side of the entrance.. Just sit, and watch, and enjoy that drink.. One of the MOST relaxing things I know of to do!
My wife is slowly getting over her EEEEEEEEEE sounds and flapping her arms as she runs when the bees get near her. She actually came out and sat with me last weekend. There is a "little" hope for her yet!
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Do it SJ.. Mix a drink, take the most comfy chair you have, and go sit a few feet and to one side of the entrance.. Just sit, and watch, and enjoy that drink.. One of the MOST relaxing things I know of to do!
My wife is slowly getting over her EEEEEEEEEE sounds and flapping her arms as she runs when the bees get near her. She actually came out and sat with me last weekend. There is a "little" hope for her yet!
LOL almost spit coffee on the computer screen....Tom
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I love it! every single one of us has made that statement!
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Good lesson learned. Don't go into hives at dusk. In the middle day when the foragers are out gathering nectar and pollen, the bees in the hive are occupied transferring the nectar and the hive population can be 25% less.
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Had a few more firsts on Sunday. Tried on my new bee suit for the first time, did my first inspection (no way I was waiting another second!), and spotted my first queen cells. The one hive seemed to be doing very well and had begun drawing out three frames of comb. The other hive did not seem to have nearly as many bees, less pollen & nectar, no new comb drawn, and had capped and uncapped queen cells. So I had my first panic session, and then my first management decision.: I'm sitting back and letting them be bees. But just in case, I have set out some swarm traps in case they swarm (and decide to actually go where I want them to).
I have noticed more bees coming and going from the weaker hive in the last two days, so I'm hoping that means they are content.