Welcoming bees!
My love affair with bees began in childhood. In the early 1980s, I harbored beekeeping dreams and was devouring all the information I could find on the subject. Then life happened, I moved to the opposite side of the country. and the dream faded into the background. After my health crisis I had given up on ever becoming a beekeeper. Then a friend who kept bees learned of my interest. I spent an afternoon shadowing them last summer as they did regular hive maintenance. I was hooked. I expressed an interest in fostering a hive the following year as I don't have the physical capacity to look after them independently. Well yesterday, I got my hive to foster! I am over the moon! My friend and her husband will be by periodically to check on them. In the meantime, I am talking to them and tending the garden that will nourish them over the remainder of the season. Counting my blessings today. You never know when the universe will...
