by Susan Annette Smith | Feb 12, 2016 | The Bumbling Beekeeper
Missed Parts 1 and 2? Read them here: Call of Duty and Capturing the Swarm It was full-on dark by the time we got home. We fixed up a big pot of sugar syrup for the new bees, and I held it in my lap as we drove back to our bee yard (if two hives qualify as a...
by Susan Annette Smith | Feb 3, 2016 | The Bumbling Beekeeper
If you missed Part 1: Call of Duty, read it first! Fortunately the clump had the queen in it so all we had to do was wait for the other half to get the message that she was in the box. That’s what took so long. If she had still been on the tree, the bees in the...
by Susan Annette Smith | Feb 3, 2016 | The Bumbling Beekeeper
It was a very small, very well-behaved swarm—just what a couple of rookies needed! We got the call Sunday afternoon from our youngest daughter’s best friend’s boyfriend Nate, who is the station captain for one of the local fire districts. Would we rescue a...
by Susan Annette Smith | Jun 16, 2015 | Hippie Dippy Gypsy Know-How, The Bumbling Beekeeper
Hopefully everyone knows about Amazon’s “smile” program by which Amazon customers can donate .05% of their purchase price to a chosen charity. The bigger, more well-known charities are listed as the “Top Five,” but the smaller ones...
by Susan Annette Smith | May 14, 2015 | The Bumbling Beekeeper
One of my daughters sent me this today, and I thought I would share it. By now you probably know that bees are overworked, but did you know they were underpaid? Well, now you do! Poor little thing has bags under her eyes, and no money to buy concealer! (Check out the...
by Susan Annette Smith | May 6, 2015 | The Bumbling Beekeeper
My husband (aka the Goat) and I had a party at our house recently. Attendance hovered around 75,000, and we personally knew fewer than two dozen of the guests. So who were the others? Nosey neighbors? Party crashers? Friends of friends of friends? The local SWAT...
