Adventures with Honey Bees

Mickey has had some exciting adventures with his Honey Bees. This picture shows Mickey and our dear friend, Ronnie, sorting through the 2 hives hunting for the queen. As they finished this process, they never found the queen!!, they suddenly spot a swarm on our honeysuckle bushes. As soon as they spotted them they flew away. They got in their vehicles and drove, seeing if they could see where they landed, but they never located them.

Mickey was splitting his bee's into 2 hives and moved one hive back against our back privacy fence.

Then Mickey was out checking his bees, and once again noticed they were swarming around the honeysuckle bushes AGAIN. He quickly called Ronnie. Here they are just surveying and trying to figure out what to do next!!!

Still looking things over.

Still looking!!!

Setting up the ladder. Ronnie said, "Susan, you need to write a book." I almost do!!

Placing one piece of the hive box, a nuke, on the ladder. The nuke has been sprayed with lemon pledge to attact the bees by the cent. They are hoping the bees will all return to the box. After awhile the bees are mostly gone and Mickey assumes they are in the box. He seals it up for, just before dark, for the night.

The next morning he goes out to remove the seal and check the box. There was not one bee in this nuke!!!

Even Ronnie is perplexed over this development. They called John, another bee keeper from our church, and he says it was probably a "test" smarming. As of this writing Mickey, do to losing these bees, he was unable to develop a 3rd bee colony.

We may not know what is happening, or going on, but we know that Our God knows and we are not overly concerned. The worst that has happened is Mickey was unable to establish the 3rd colony.

By the way, the new hive which he set back by the fence is doing great!!!! So he has two hives this year which are doing well. He began this venture last year with one hive. Never a dull moment around our place :o)

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Another busy week for us. Oh Thursday we were invited over to Don & Barbara's for chilli and then we all attended the Dave Ramsey symacast that was held at their church. It lasted 1 1/2 hours. We had gone to a conference by Dave Ramsey about 7 years ago in Oklahoma City. He didn't have a lot of new stuff to say, but he does believe our economy will come back and be okay if the government will just get out of the way. OOOOPPSSS ----- I don't think that is going to happen. As always, his main point is GET OUT OF DEBT!!! We are working hard to do just that.

My Tuesday night Bible Study is really getting interesting and we are learning so much. I'll share some on that later.