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There were lots of questions and thankfully we took pictures too. Now, totally dismissing the questions that we asked our fellow Beeks at the monthly club meeting, the good news is we caught babies emerging from cells. I could look at photos of them emerging forEVER! Such a wonderful feeling! 
Wonderful morning visiting a friends 7 hive apiary. Great to see how she inspects and documents the hives. I love seeing all the activity on each frame. Such a lovely area with a field of buckwheat. Beautiful! Picked up the NUC late last night. By the time we got home and installed the bees it was almost midnight. Needless to say the bees were not happy. After being dragged out of their home right at dark and with a light drizzle, by the time got home and moved them yet again, they were not happy campers. Night installs, never again.  Poor pitiful hive...used bits and pieces to put this one together until we can get all of it's own ~parts.  All boxed in.  Three in a row. :D
I had a hitchhiker come into the house with me. I just took her back to the hive. She rode on my hand the entire way. 
Hanging out on the landing. If only I could convince them to pose for me :D 
We got up bright and early this morning to pick up our NUC. Arrived back home and quickly put on our jacket and veils so we could take a peek at our new hive. We drove, well hubby drove I rode, almost an hour to north Georgia to pick up our #3 package of BEES! Here we go............... Both hives are ready waiting on our Bees! It does look like we'll only be picking up one of our hives this Saturday. The distributor for the other has put off delivery. We'll find out soon when that will be.  An article even in the deer magazine. Got to love a group that plants dutch clover! 
 Just starting out as beeks of course we attended Bee School at a local club. The one day class was very interesting. There were speakers on everything from equipment, what you'd see in a hive, lots of hands on displays, raffles and an ER doctor on allergic reactions. OH, did I mention raffle? When we walked into Bee School on this Saturday we knew we'd have one hive. In fact we've ordered it and would be getting it in April. When the raffle drawing started we ended up winning a basic hive from one drawing and a three pound package of bees on the second drawing. Amazingly enough we also won some frames and honey. Yes, we played the lottery when we left, but apparently the raffle was as lucky as we were going to be. I can live with it. Now... to plan for TWO hives instead of one. Documenting Bee School apparently wasn't high on my list. #fail  Found a few books at my favorite book store! What...me with books? :D
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