Beekeeping is part science and part art. The science part is biology, ecology, botany and meteorology. The art part is curiosity, creativity in problem solving and wisdom. Combine the two and throw in 120,000 bees and you have your beekeeper. Curious folks who enjoy nature and creativity...plus there must be a bit of old fashioned yankee ingenuity thrown in for good measure. My family and frinds think there is plenty of kookiness in it as well.

Being a beekeeper is knowing when to take an passive role in management of the beehive coupled with a sense as to when to intervene. It has been so very hot and humid here that at night there are thousands of honeybees languishing outside the hive entrances. It is just about time to put on the honey supers, but I have not been able to get to it yet due to the excessive heat. I have been simply leaving the bees alone, but all that is about to change since I have scehduled an inspection an some hive management this weekend. My plan is to do all this on Sunday, and I will report on the progress.

In other news, the local newspaper did a fine job writing about my bees. You can read all about is in the Canton Journal. I think that the writer did a superb job of explaining some of the finer points on keeping bees and people will enjoy the article. I like the fact that people are interested in honeybees and I am fortunate that I can be their publicist.