Getting Ready for Market

Now that the honey is all bottled, I have to get it labeled and ready to sell. I'm getting labels made by a local company; they should be ready by the end of the week. I'm putting polka dot ribbons on the jars too to dress them up a little. The TIEG meeting in October is coming up and I have a table reserved at the 'marketplace.' I have no idea what the demand is but it should be fun to find out. If I have time, I'll make some 'award winning' caramels too for people to sample and purchase. I can use the fair ribbons to decorate the table.
How are the bees doing? They still have lots of honey in their hives even after the big harvest. Toby's hive has a new queen who's only a couple of weeks old. She was starting to lay eggs last week which is good news but I plan to check on her again this week and make sure I see good brood production. Still need to keep my fingers crossed! I talked to a fellow beekeeper this week whose hive also went queenless this week. She had to get a new queen from Tate's. It's not a good time of year to re-queen but what can you do?
It's time to get ready for colder weather: night time temps were in the upper 30s last week but now it's warmer and will be close to 90 by Friday! Not sure how that affects the bees. I do know that we haven't had rain for a month and a half so it's really dry which decreases the available forage for the bees. At least we live on the South Hill where much of the yards and parks are watered which helps.