Still one good hive

Both my hives are doing well, and while Meg (the taller one) seems to be stalled at 2.5 full supers, Jo has drawn 70-80% of the fourth box and should have plenty of room for honey going into the winter. Jo is around 80% done capping two boxes of honey in the supers, so I'm looking forward to around 50 lbs of harvested honey from the one hive!

In other news, my dad reports that three of his hives are now queenless. He thinks all three of his hives swarmed, and while he caught one (now doing very well and building up for the winter) the three original hives have neither eggs nor larvae suggesting that they are queenless. The hives are still reasonably strong, so he's planning to purchase three new queens and cross his fingers that they'll build up a good bunch of bees for wintering.

Other than that, not much to report. I suspect we'll be harvesting in two weeks as I want to have most of the honey fully capped to make my life easier when we're harvesting. If too much of what we take is unripe, we could have to run a dehumidifier in the room with the honey to get it back under 18.5% water content (so the honey doesn't ferment).