Fair

The Spokane Fair has come and gone!  The boys and I spent an afternoon working at the bee club booth.

 

Toby gets his product ready to sell.

 

Taking a break. A four hour shift is a lot for an 8-yr old.

 

Working up an appetite selling honey? Ok.

 

The annuals are looking good at Manito Park but there's not much for the bees to eat. The hives are losing weight every day. I'm feeding them sugar syrup 2-3 times a week and trying to build them up. 

 

Yuck! What's this? The mite count has spiked up just like last year. Ugh. From 6:300 to 32!!  Not good. So now I have Apivar strips in the hives for the next six weeks.