Moving time

"Fellow Neighbor I regret to inform you that my roommate is allergic to bees. If you would kindly remove the killer bees. Thank-you"

That was the note I got taped to my front door. I had mentioned to my neighbor that I started keeping bees and asked him if he was allergic just a few days earlier. He said he wasn't and that he didn't have a problem with it; I guess his roommate does. I'm not mad though, we were planning on moving them Memorial Day anyway because there were just too many hives on the porch, after we combined thing 1 we had 4 hives..2 in polystyrene boxes and 2 in the swarm boxes.

I had asked my girlfriends parents and grandparents if they would mind but I really didn't feel comfortable with either option. Her grandparents have a bear problem and her young niece lives with her parents. So before I bugged her parents again I called my mentor, who lives just a few miles down the road, and asked if he would mind a few extra hives for a while; he said yes! So on Memorial Day the first thing we did was pack up our porch and head over to his house.

He wasn't there but his brother was and he helped direct things while Dingo and I set up shop. We combined the smaller swarm box with one of his hives and the larger swarm box with the bees in it from Penn Hills we put into a spare Wooden Deep with drawn comb. The other two hives were doing well by themselves but I'm anxious for our feeders to get here so we can put them on top to help with build up. My mentors bee yard is down a pretty steep hill and it took allot of effort dragging down the cement bricks to use as stands and the hives themselves. I always seem to do things the hard way! I hope to have some space in a local park for my apiary within a few weeks or once we put an offer in on a house to be able to move them to our own property.