Today I hope.
I have placed a red rug underneath the hives so that the weeds don’t grow through but now that I think abut it maybe I should turn that upside down. Can bees see red? I can’t remember. I shall look it up and fix that before I load the bees in.
Yesterday was dark and cold with rain and snow. Snow that flew past at a terrible face biting speed, on the way to somewhere else in a great hurry.
It was a rotton day yesterday.
Big Hugs. Today is dawning fine and clear, maybe we will even have sun after almost a week of rain and cold weather. Will spring come now?
Good morning. Daisy had her first once a day milking yesterday. I brought her in for a morning feed, her homeopathic anti-mastitis remedy and a good clean and check of her udder. Then I milked her in the afternoon. So far so good. I do hope that this time she will transition without any trouble. The sheep are out on the grass and after a few dry days I will let Queenie and her crew have a few hours of green grass a day. Though not until the ground is dry enough to take their weight.
This weekend the little chicks will come out of the basement and into their own outside run.
I shall get busy now and after feeding and managing my morning chores, I will finish the set up of the hives, load my sprayer with sugar water, and off we will go to collect the new bees. It is only about an hour away. I will pop you all under my arm and take you and camera house with me. We will have an outing today and I will show you the pictures tomorrow.
I hope you are all going to have a lovely, lovely day. Already I am enjoying this one!
your friend celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
54 responses to “Waiting on the bees”
Good luck with the bees 🙂
If the farmy has bees, it must be Spring. You listening Old Man Winter? It’s time to go!
I remember the story of the last time you picked up your bees at the Post Office and I’m looking forward to hearing all about it. Have a happy time at the hivewarming. 🙂
Sunshine here today – we’ll send you some!
i sure hope you have luck with these bees! i want bees so bad but i am so allergic to stings. do you get stung very often?
Ooh, yummy home-cultivated honey!
Red carpet for the bees! Marvellous. They deserve it.
Those bees deserve a red carpet even if they can’t see it. Happy hive-warming, literally. Once they’re home, the buzzy gap in the Farmy cast will be filled. I’ll add my quiet prayer to the swarm 🙂
Thank you, the bees are such a wqelcome sight on the farmy.. c
Oh, my gosh, sunshine here ALL day. It was so fabulous. Perhaps moving your direction.
I am thrilled you got some sun.. you truly need it over there.. c
For this urban gal it is a lovely read about spring awakening the farmy! Looking forwards to the chickens ‘coming out’ also, but don’t know about the bees. After some very painful stings in my lifetime, don’t know I would dare get close to the hives: depart my own garden during prime flowering times when I can her the hum!!!! Sooky, i know 🙂 !
I shall tell them all to be on their best behaviour when you visit your tree and me! c
Well that surely is one worry off my mind 😉 !
I have been told that bees do see red and that is why Texas blue bonnets start as red. They turn blue after they’re pollinated. Or is it the other way around…? They’ll come. If I were a bee I’d love to live in your garden!
And we have so many blossoms on the way too.. soon the garden will be humming again. c
That didn’t sound like a pleasant day to be outside, at all! Hope it improves and stays that way, soon.
I’m salivating just thinking of the delicous raw honey you will get! Good luck with the bees 🙂
The bees are having a fine welcome, with the red carpet being laid out for them. As long as it doesn’t give them delusions of grandeur about turning into queens! Despite that horrible weather, spring is definitely dancing in.
Enjoy the spring happenings. Autumn definitely happening here. 🙂
I don’t have bees – ummm have to think on that one, I do have loads of clover – in fact my so called ‘lawn’ is really mostly clover as my back garden used to have horses there (previous owner). The Humming Birds are back! Have just two feeders out at the moment as it’s just fly-byes that are here heading north. Once the permanent ones come I have 6 feeders going all the time and they are swamped. Love my Hummers! To me they say SUMMER in big letters. Hope your day is full of sunshine and not much wind.
I would love to have humming birds.. I need to do some research on that and everyone should have a cover lawn, it would help the wild bees immmensley!c