Time to Move

I've been struggling the last couple of months with the location of my hives.  As you recall, they currently overlook a beautiful duck, fish, and turtle-filled pond between the 15th and 16th hole of a Audubon-certified golf course here in the Texas Hill Country.  It is truly an idyllic setting, though it's a real pain the the pitutie to get too.  I spend 10 minutes driving to the course, then schlepp all my bee stuff onto a golf cart, only to drive the cart another 10 minutes to reach the site.  It's not too bad on a beautiful spring-like day, but in August - when the high temperature breaks the 100 mark, it's brutal.  Worse yet, when I forget something and need to run home to get it - I usually don't.  The one time I forgot my gloves, I came home with 6 stings - yowza!

It would be ever so much nicer to have in my yard.  So home is where they shall be.  Tom - gratefully - is supportive of this and spent a good deal of time with me mapping out the best location in our yard.  It's important to consider things like - where the hives will get first morning sun, is it close to a good water source, and are the hives far enough away from weed wackers and other equipment that makes a lot of noise.   Sweet Tom - even went with me to Home Depot today and picked up supplies to make the hive bases - AND he installed them this afternoon!

Now the next big decision - when to actually move them.  I think I'll move Roxi's hive over first since it's a lot more docile than Maybelle's hive.  Once I get Roxi and her girls settled, I'll deal with Maybelle - ugh - not looking forward to that!