Tag: installing a package of bees

• The Russian Queen

  

  “The Bees have arrived” she called. The Postmistress had received a delivery of bees.   She has me on speed dial due to my tendency to receive unusual mail.  So off I went to collect them. I left the dogs home this one time. Our new Russian Queen and her attendants circled in their little…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  May 13, 2014

  Bees, Farming, homesteading, Life, Photography, Vines and Wine

  bees, blossom, buying bees, grape vines, installing a package of bees

• Well beehaved bees

  The bees have arrived and not only did they survive their travels with very few casualties, but they even tucked themselves up into their own new homes without terribly much bother. You see, yesterday morning early I hurt my back. Not badly but enough to disable my strength and slow my stride to a creep.…

  Cecilia Mary Gunther

  April 21, 2013

  Bees, Farming, homesteading

  bees, installing a package of bees, magnolia bud, milking a cow, queen bees