After our poor bees died during the winter, we were hoping to order some more bees. However, situations arose that we may not be able to purchase them, however my darling Granny decided to chip in and actually bought our order of bees and a hive and order of bees for herself! She loved the taste of our raw honey so much that she decided to get some for herself also, and we couldn’t bee happier:) So we ordered two three pound shipment of bees to install into our two hives and in the meantime we arranged her hive and painted it.

Then on the 18th of May, they arrived after a nice journey from Georgia. After they arrived from the post office, I immediately formed an attachment with our new bees. They are so unique and wonderfully made by God. We prepared ourselves for installing them by watching a few YouTube videos, which can indeed come in handy for situations like this. We agreed that we like this video best:

This is basically what we did today. We installed at our home and then at my Granny’s. I was only stung once but I savored the moment. Beekeeping is such a wonderfully exciting hobby that I hope will last my entire life. We plan on getting more hives and selling our own honey to frugal consumers like ourselves with really good taste:)

Here are a few pictures (they can be enlarged-just click on them):

The bees fresh from the post office

10,000 bees and myself