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 lean your way!