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Offline Barry n Abbie

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Winter Feeding
« on: January 26, 2017, 01:44:10 pm »
After checking 5 hives and adding fondant to two of them, I am starting to display signs of the winter beekeeper disease - agitation, anxiety, repeated trips to the internet to check winter weather forecasts, etc, and despite my best efforts to be worry free, I still have to wait another 2 months to see what the outcome will be........Who ever said beekeeping was a calming experience?   ;)
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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2017, 02:27:27 pm »
It is in the summer. :D
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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2017, 04:19:14 pm »
After checking 5 hives and adding fondant to two of them, I am starting to display signs of the winter beekeeper disease - agitation, anxiety, repeated trips to the internet to check winter weather forecasts, etc, and despite my best efforts to be worry free, I still have to wait another 2 months to see what the outcome will be........Who ever said beekeeping was a calming experience?   ;)

You mean this isn't abnormal?

Whew!

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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2017, 04:47:43 pm »
It is in the summer. :D

Hurry up summer
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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2017, 06:17:21 pm »
B&A ,
Old timer's here know how to suppress that anxiety,  I've yet to learn that.  ;D

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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2017, 06:56:53 pm »
B&A ,
Old timer's here know how to suppress that anxiety,  I've yet to learn that.  ;D

Old timers everywhere have learned how to do that, it's called being too tired and lazy to do anything about it.(I know ;))
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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2017, 07:06:45 pm »
Exactly.  :laugh:

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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2017, 08:02:46 pm »
B&A, some of us use the time to read books about beekeeping, build equipment, make sugar bricks, fantasize about honey supers, plan gardens and pollinator plots.  Let's see...did I forget anything?  Get a daily fix of bee talk with beekeeping comrades!   :D
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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2017, 06:09:34 am »
B&A, some of us use the time to read books about beekeeping, build equipment, make sugar bricks, fantasize about honey supers, plan gardens and pollinator plots.  Let's see...did I forget anything?  Get a daily fix of bee talk with beekeeping comrades!   :D
Assemble equipment.  I have only half my frames done and NO nuc boxes.  Aaaugh!

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Re: Winter Feeding
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2017, 09:36:31 pm »
Still prepping and painting and reworking frames.  :\'(