Sorry for slacking...

You were forewarned, I am a lousy internet guy. I'll try to have some more pictures and info in the course of the next few days.

The Welcome Mat

A few bees checking out the front porch the first morning after installation.

Where do you keep your tbh?

Mine is in the back yard, which doubles as my nature preserve. This is how the sun hits the hive first thing in the morning.

Dumping of the bees

This was April 11th, time to introduce the bees to their new crib. As I opened the box of bees and attempted to remove the queen cage, I discovered the bees had built a bit of comb around it. I found that out just after the queen cage fell into the box of bees. Oh joy. Talk about a introduction to bees, first experience ever and I had to stick my hand in the box of 10,000 to retrieve the queen cage. Honeybees are amazingly mild mannered. I did get stung on the back of the hand once, my fault though. I bumped my hand on the inside of the box and mashed a bee. Rookie mistake. I had a cartoon hand for about three days, all swollen, red, and itchy. It looked like the Hamburger Helper hand, only red. The guys at work thought it was the funniest thing ever. At any rate, the queen was pulled out and placed in the tbh and the rest of the girls got dumped in. A few slow pokes made their way in the front door after a while. I added some grub, and closed it up. It went fairly well for my first time, I thought.