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*Honey Bee Arrival*

*Honey Bee Arrival*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Okay…I’m getting ready for the advent of the next stage of my honey bee attempt….. I’m going to try this again….. I’m scheduled to pick up my bees this weekend….. I’ll be picking up two nuc’s (five-frame bee-starter kits)….. I’m in the pre-bee prep-zone head-space….. Their custom-made deck has (unfortunately) become a catch all for assorted farm stuff….. I need to use what’s necessary…and find alternate homes for the rest….. I’m hoping for…

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——-Bees…Again——-

——-Bees…Again——-

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…Here Goes….. I’m about to do it again….. I love the little bastards…(they scare me so)…(I feel like I owe it to Mother Nature to keep trying)….. Down here in sunny sub-tropical Florida…starting up new bee hives is usually done after the commercial citrus bloom is completed….. …..when the beekeepers have more time to evaluate their hives…make new ones…and follow the blooming spring…as it follows the sun’s seasonal warming northward….. If you think…

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*****Bee Target*****

*****Bee Target*****

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’d forgotten to mention….. Remember the recent dressage show that I went to with Ester….. It was an over-cast day…not super hot…maybe a little humid…but relatively pleasant for Florida….. There’s a reason I am telling you this….. …..while I was out there…in a large open field…with everyone else….. I had a honey bee land on my upper arm…and I watched…as she very deliberately…got into position…and stung me(?)….. *****I was really surprised***** I was…

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