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Alpha and the tornado
On May 23 2019, a tornado touched down within a mile of here. I was at Home Depot at the time, and this is what I found when arriving home. Alpha was just fine. A tree limb did fall close to the entrance, but no damage!
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Arrival of my first colony of bees.
The date was April 26, 2019 that my first hive Alpha arrived. Bill the beekeeper can be seen here pushing the hive across the creek to it’s new home. In 2019 I never thought that wading across the creek was too much work to get to the hive, but since then I am happy that…
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Alpha in it’s totally natural setting
Most hives are close to the ground with a stand like a pallet or cinder blocks. Because my creek does flood occasionally, I wanted to keep the hive above the height of the possible floodwaters. The two downsides to this location (which I didn’t recognize right away being a newbee) were wading across the creek…
