#009 : My ladies like the hive top feeder of course!

So here it is. There has been some horrible bee weather goin on in my sweet home of Chicago. Add to that the building where I have my hive is being worked on. There are a couple of guys grinding the mortar joints sending clouds of dust billowing towards my nectar suckers. It's been coooold! It's been winnnnnddyyy!! It's been raininnnnngggg!!! It's been dusssssssty!!!! It's been noooooisy!!!!! Everything bees hate. Chi-Town has been rough on these bees for a three weeks.

So why am I so happy??? Because my bees 'bee' lovin it biotches!!! Today the Windy City laid aside the huffin and puffin - she took a deep breath and gave the rain and cold weather a rest. The result was the first warm and pleasant day since I first installed the bees.

I witnessed something really cool today - what was it you might ask??? Something really coool! No, not Ronald getting stung by a bee. That would be SUPER COOL. Instead today I witnessed the bees doing some spring cleaning. Ronald, you can learn from these bees! And by that I mean to clean up so you don't smell soooo bad!!! Just joking!

The bees were cleaning out all the dead bees and miscellaneous garbage in the hive. If you were in the hive Ronald they would have kicked you out!!! I also had a chance to open up the hive top feeder to see if the bees were using it. I was pleasantly surprised to see they were lovin that too!

So I took a close up shot with Betty and Barb lookin at me like they were saying : "Hey who the heck just opened the hive!!! Let's sting that sucka!!! Oh, wait it is Gregory ...  hey Greg, what's up? This weather is great. Thanks for the sugar syrup - it's really good! ... Now close that lid before we sting you!!! Just kidding!"

 My bees have a great sense of humor. :) They must take after me! Ha! Just kidding!

So on that note I will end this blog entry. I will get more interesting stuff up on this blog space thing when I have someone will to get close enough to the hive to take pictures while I'm inspecting or something.

Here are some great links I recently found that will really help with your beekeeping :

Bad Beekeeper : This is a site that is as interesting as it's author.
It might not see like there is much info on this site but if you look and dig around you will pleasantly surprised. Just so you don't have to dig too much here is the link to his link page.

http://www.badbeekeeping.com/weblinks.htm

Bee Master's International Beekeeping Forum : Just a great source of information and wonderful people.

http://forum.beemaster.com/

Here is apple pie a la mode

I think pie is nice, Apple pie is sweet as can bee.

Ice cream on top makes a la mode you see.

Take care of those bees everyone and enjoy them this time of the year when they are too busy building and eating syrup to be angry and sting you!