Yesterday I checked my bees for the first time since I moved them from their small "loft" into the "two bedroom" hive. It was a beautiful day and I smoked them just a touch and then started into the hive. I was pleased to see that all the girls were busy and lots of new comb had been drawn out and there was even a fair amount of honey in the brood chamber (the bottom box). There was plenty of brood and eggs, so the queen is doing her job well.I broke from tradition and didn't paint my hive white, I decided to just paint the front in such a way that it would make me smile and hopefully make the bees happy. The hive is beautiful cypress and I hated to cover it up. After I painted it I put two coats of polyurethane over everything.
