Hi,
My name is Rick, and I'm six days away from my fifty-second birthday . . . I'll be back in a bit after the depression fades from saying that.
Okay, I'm back! My long-suffering wonderful wife of thirty-three years (come one month from tomorrow) has indulged me in jumping both feed forward into beekeeping. I've ordered two complete hives and two packages of bees plus assorted accessories. Hives and accessories should ship soon, bees will ship the end of April -- a late start, but I was late in deciding to go forward with this.
Work keeps me pretty busy, and this seemed a hobby I can fit around my schedule. Mostly will only be able to work the bees on the weekend, but looking forward to to entering the hobby.
I've got about 764 questi-- no, make that 765 questions (just thought of another) and I'll be pestering you folks with those in the coming weeks, though searching through the web site has already knocked it down from the original 1,942 questions.
In any case, glad to be here!
Rick
PS: I made up the number of questions, but it's likely a lot. :)
Welcome Rick!
Scott
Welcome to the forum. Bring the questions.
See here:
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,31069.0.html (http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,31069.0.html)
and here:
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,31459.0.html (http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,31459.0.html)
Thanks for the welcome. And, buzzbee, I had read the two threads you posted links for. (Macon is actually closer to where I work than my house is to work, just in the opposite direction.) So I had read when bud3 was and where bud3 was and who was attending bud3 . . . just hadn't seen anything that actually told me what bud3 was. :) Of course, I could have missed it.
Rick
Bud3= "Beemaster's International Beekeeper Gathering...third year"
Always a blast!
Scott
...One question down. :-D welcome aboard.
Rick,
it's a pretty casual gathering of forum members meeting for the weekend to discuss bees,get some hands on on cutouts,good likelihood of swarm catching and a chance to ask quite a few seasoned beekeepers questions you may have about beekeeping. And the chance to get right in a hive to have your questions answered.Also a good chance to learn about the hive itself on the inside if you never had the chance.
It is also a great atmosphere just to get to know some of the other forum members ,relax and enjoy some great food.
Here is a thread from last year:
http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,27677.0.html (http://forum.beemaster.com/index.php/topic,27677.0.html)