Supered Jonathan's yard - was only three high, and still in a
winter group of 20
Some hives need seven standards. Some are still in the
thirds.
The granulation we put into the supers is entirely liquefied in
the hives that are occupying those boxes -- as long as we scratched the cappings
before putting it in the supers.
Found Karl had been doing a poor job on the supers. He had
been doing a great job and we had stopped monitoring closely..
I'm breaking in diesel #5.
I stopped at Gordon's and put queens in four splits.
Queens are surviving nicely in the travel box. So far only
1 of the original 108 has died. About twenty-four are left.
Robinsons & Jonny Hillus and his girlfriend came for
burgers.
Extractor arrived from Manitoba around 11.
Today: Sunny. Wind light. High 27.
Tonight: Clear. Wind west 20 km/h diminishing to light late
evening. Low 11.
Sunday: Sunny. Wind light. High 26.
Monday: Mainly sunny. Low 9. High 29.
Tuesday: A mix of sun and cloud. Low 11. High 30.
Wednesday: Mainly cloudy with 30 percent chance of showers.
Low 10. High 28.
Drums arrived today. Supposed to arrive at 2PM, but came at 4 PM.
Hired another student.
Very hot out. I'm tired. Went to bed at 12 and awoke at 4
AM. Suspect that eating Polish sausage yesterday did it. I ate
several.
It's getting dry again, but rain is forecast for today and later this week.
We are nearly finished working through the supers and nearly finished
supering.
I went out to put queens into splits at Georgie's & Cyrils's.
I found that it was easy to spot the queenless half at Georgies, but not at
Cyril's. I soon gave up there. I guessed the second yard must
have been done later in the day. I still saw some eggs and no queen
cells. Actually, on checking, I discovered it was done only
yesterday. No wonder!
I direct released the queens, since it was hot, there was a flow on, and the
bees seemed to accept the queens without any signs of hostility.
Today: Mainly sunny. 40 percent chance of afternoon showers
or thunderstorms. Wind increasing to southeast 20 km/h. High 31.
Tonight: Partly cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers or
thunderstorm. Wind diminishing to light. Low 13.
Paulo and Dustin headed out with helpers to take care of the remaining yards
that have not had their last supering round. They pretty well finished up
and we still have a few hundred supers left over.
Jeff and Karl continued to make up the last of the supers. We had a new
hire show up today. Kyle has some experience welding and forklifting, so
we hope he will fit in well.
Today: Mainly sunny. Wind light. High 29. Low 12..
"If I make a
living off it, that's great -- but I come from a culture where you're valued not
so much by what you acquire but by what you give away," -- Larry Wall (the inventor of Perl)
