Quick Inspection Update

Meg and Jo moved from 75 to East Bethel where they reside with my Dad's 5 hives.  It's pretty soggy up there right now, but they're on cinder blocks and dirt piles so they should stay nice and dry barring a bizarre flash-flood.  They're both very strong, and have filled the first three boxes with brood and some honey and when I peeked in yesterday, they were working hard on all 10 frames of the fourth box.  My dad is going to try to open up some space in the brood nest by moving any frames of honey up to the fourth box and replace them with foundation.  He'll try to put the foundation between frames of capped brood to encourage proper spacing of all the drawn comb.

At the Lair in Afton (so named long before I set up an apiary there) all three hives are growing fast with a dozen frames of capped and partially capped brood each.  They started with one box each of drawn comb, and have drawn out 4/10 frames in the second box.  With the quick progress they're making, I'll add an extra box of foundation -- probably on Wednesday or Thursday when the Lair's residents can help!