Holiday Bazaar

Today my husband and I sold honey and candles at the annual Holiday Bazaar at my work. There was an amazing turnout, I nearly sold out of all of my 2013 honey! I do have a few jars left for anyone who is interested ;)

Freezing

BRRR! It has been extremely cold lately. Last year we had some cold snaps that finished off one of my hives in January. I'm a bit worried that this cold snap is going to freeze my weaker hives. Earlier this week it dropped to the high 20s, last night the temperature dropped to 30 degrees F. The water bucket I leave out for the bees was frozen. Mum dumped out the water for me and freshened it, here are the little sticks that I keep in the water to provide life rafts for the bees, frozen solid!

Luckily, there was activity in front of all three hives later in the day as it hit a high of 52 (even the weakest yellow hive):