Super!

I checked on the hives again yesterday and today. Lately it's been so hot that I'm doing them just one at a time. Even if it's only in the 70s, I'm dripping sweat after a half an hour! Between the jeans tucked in and taped to my rainboots and the bee suit/hood/gloves, I overheat in the blink of an eye. And you can't wipe the sweat out of your eyes when you have the hood on. Yikes! It's like being in a sauna.
Anyways, the bees seem to be pretty happy. The garden is in full swing with all kinds of plants coming into bloom. I can see the worker bees coming into the hives with tons of pollen on their legs.
Hive #1 seems to outpacing #2 at this point but I have no idea why. We have honey supers on both hives that are filling up fast. I added a second one to hive #1 today. I pulled the frames of drone comb from both hives and replaced them with new ones. Those will go into the freezer to kill the mites that prefer the drone brood. Sorry boys! I'll keep rotating them as they fill up to keep pulling mites out of the hive. In theory this will decrease the mite load on the worker bees. That sounds better to me than using poisonous miticides! Stay tuned to hear how well this works... I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the hives stay healthy and that I can harvest a little honey this summer. I'm just dying to taste it!