It was the biggest day of the year so far on Saturday. Miss L is eighteen years old. We had a birthday bash in a marque at Moira Furnace. We had a DJ and a bar. By Miss L's request it was a fancy dress affair, the theme, Las Vegas. But before the fun begins I had a few things to do. My new queen bee arrived in the post on Friday morning. I did not want to keep her in her traveling case too long so I decided to introduce into the hive on Saturday morning. The weather has been poor all week but got better during Friday. Miss L had to go to work early so I was up early. I decided to do a few jobs in the garden and greenhouse. I planted out Sunflowers, Marigolds and did a bit of weeding. I tidied up the sweet pea back to the trellis. Since the seed trays in the greenhouse are much reduced I took down the staging and positioned the canes to support the tomatoes. Just for good measure I tidied in Toms to the canes.
By 10.30 it was approaching 18 degrees. I trundled over to the apiary, dismantled the hive in readiness for the introduction. I trimmed back the mesh covering the food part of the travelling case. I placed the travelling case, mesh down, over the space between the frame top rails. Then put the hive back together and resolved to check the hive out as soon as possible. I was not going to be able to do that Sunday. I had a quick look through other two hives and found all was well. That done I came away.
I had nothing else to do but stay in an wait for our guests to arrive and make Tea. In the fullness of time folks arrived. Eventually they were sent off to the various places they were to stay and we got ready to go out. We had a very good evening, lots of people came from far and wide. As far as I know everyone had as good a night as we did.
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