Honey Bee cut-out this past weekend. — Page 4

I live in TN. They are my friend's hives, so I am not a regular part of their upkeep, but I try to make it out to help him with them (so I can learn a few things and because I find it all ridiculously fascinating) every time my schedule lines up with his hive maintenance times.

I've been busy so it has been about a week since I talked to him, I am not sure if he has had anymore problems or if he figured out the cause yet.

Both days it was when the weather made unusual rapid mid-day change from hot, sunny, and calm to cloudy, rainy, and extremely windy. I can't help but wonder if that is a non-causal coincidence, or if the rapid weather change somehow threw them off.

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Of course he was serious.

I wonder if there is a monthly beekeeper's meeting where I live? With the number of hives I see around, I bet there is. Maybe should look into something like that.

I just moved here not to long ago. I think we've had this discussion before, right? You were near Nashville, and I am near Knox. Not that far really. We should have made it a point to meet up. Having met the lovely Gaffer Tape in real life would be some serious bragging rights on this site.

Any chance you'll be visiting the area in the future? You should move to Knoxville. I desperately need a room mate. :D

Candle light, the chink of glasses, a romantic meal and before you know it the Gaffer Tape is off and everyone has stretch marks.

Gaffer can't actually get pregnant...

Oh, I see what you did there.

Big furry bumble bee came into the Great Hall of the Chateau yesterday and perched herself on the seat of one of our arm chairs.

She cleaned herself giving every appearance of being comfortably seated for some minutes.

Floated around the display cabinets, had a look at the Yellow Submarine figures, noticed the remote control Daleks and departed in haste.

Gaffer Tape said:

Okay, let me try this again.  Ahem...

Damn!  When did we have this discussion?  When did you move to Tennessee?

The subject of where do you live came up several months back and about half the forum said they live in TN (exaggeration, but there were a surprising number) which brought on jokes about this being the place to do an OT.com convention. I thought you were in on that conversation. Maybe I just made that association because I knew you lived in the state, or at least had at one point.

Anyway, I've been here for well over six months now. Feels a lot longer, time has kind of drug on here. Not really my scene by any stretch of the imagination, but fate has decided I'm here to stay, for a while anyway.

Sucks we missed each other.

Here come the mom jokes...

Anchorhead said:

Keep us posted.

They keep doing it, and every single time it is on a day that goes from sunny to cloudy to stormy (which is happening a lot here lately). They start to swarm at the very beginning of the cloudy interlude, but usually with enough time to notice and recapture them before the rain hits.

One day he had just finished catching a swarm and got his bee gear put away, when another hive started to take off. He's never seen anything like this before, and the bee books we have don't seem to cover exactly what we are experiencing.

It's just really cold up here for some reason.

It's not even wet like it has been down south (which is a blessing for me because I can get my planting in but the tomato plants or all dying.

The bees are still coming though.

Had them around the lavender I planted recently and they love the herb patch.

The Swedes against the Evil Empire.

Space is a big problem as the angles are all wrong in the Chateau grounds (the garden is smaller on the inside than it is on the outside).

I would love to in theory.

I have already kept wasps, there wasn't much work involved they just moved in like the starlings and mice.

I have a particular interest in worms.

If I can find the queen worm I might keep a hive of those.