I've done it!
After years of thinking about it, I've jumped in and ordered two packages of honey bees for the spring. My holiday treat was driving to the middle of nowhere to buy hive equipment, and my cold winter evening project is to paint it and put it all together. When the snow melts, I'll scope out the best place to put my two hives so that my travel-weary girls will be able to set up a comfortable home.
I've had my queens named for months now, and with any luck, Good Queens Myrtle and Maud will like their names and produce happy, healthy colonies.
With a name like Melissa, I guess it was only a matter of time before I became a beekeeper.
Melissa, μέλισσα
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