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Rant pertaining to Memorial Day, and how it has largely been memorable over my career by not having the day off.
Also, a little talk about the missing man.

Preserving a narrative of the swarms from Hive 2 at Yahweh Yireh apiary – June 14 & 15, 2018.

Did a quick inspection of Hive 3. They aren’t building up very quickly, but they have plenty of stores and are bringing in a lot. Transplanted a 10-frame split from a friend’s hive into one of the newly re-worked horizontals.

The loss of two out of three of our colonies this winter afforded us the opportunity to make some improvements to our horizontal Langstroth hives that will hopefully resolve some of the issues we’ve had with them.

Some encouragement as our last remaining colony seems to be building up slowly.

Remaining colony still alive. Finished refurbishing two hives. Swapped out Hive 3 box with refurbished box. Began refurbishing Hive 3 box.

Single remaining active hive building up slowly. Two hives taken offline for refurbishment.