After I lost all the bees last year I’m starting out fresh in 2018. I moved the hives again. They are close to where they were originally. Much more sun there. I had moved them closer to the house and my daily route when feeding the animals. Unfortunately there wasn’t as much sun there and I think that had a lot to do with the problems last year.

Lisa picked up the bees from the post office. She said it was much creepier than she expected with all the buzzing going on behind her. Guess I’ll have to go back to doing all the bee retrievals in the future.

This morning all was still at the hives. I could hear a little buzzing but not much. It was colder than I expected. I bet there is a lot of activity there now that it’s warmed up.

We rescued two kittens from the dump a couple of months ago. Turned them into barn cats. They have already killed a couple rats but they are also addicted to milk.

Guss the gander always shows up to look over the milk process too. This time of year he’s getting aggressive and at times tries reach through the fence with that long neck of his to pinch me.