Me, Steve, and the Bees

How cute is this?! Steve Carpenter and I had a GREAT afternoon as we suited up and loaded our beehives. We had 5 different hives, each with 3 pounds of bees and a queen. I named each queen. There were 30,000 other bees, so that may've been difficult to keep them all straight. However, for the queens, we have

1. Francis

2. Lanore

3. Radine (Named after Grandma of course)

4. Ellie

5. Lucy

Steve has never named a bee, but I convinced him that these needed names. IT WAS SO MUCH FUN!!! We had a blast and didn't even get stung once. We will harvest the honey sometime in June. :0)