The good part is: My wife was in the hospital for only 2 1/2 days this time and the hernia was repaired with no complications.

The bad part is: I have not done any studying  for my Master Beekeepers certificate in October. Go ahead and laugh, but you have to be at the school and take some of the tests to appreciate what I am sweating about.

The not so ugly part is: My son and his family are here from Argentina, and are getting ready to go to their new home around Knoxville, TN. While they are here, my boy, his wife, and son have been cutting the jungle down around my house. I can see yard that I haven’t seen in two years. I can now see my bee hives from my back door and they are only about 50 feet from the house. But now, I cannot see the road in front of the house because that is where they piled the jungle waiting for the yard trash truck.

I don’t know how I am gonna be able to thank them enough. I guess that I’ll just have to give them a rain-check for that. I am, however, letting them use my Grand Marquis for transportation, after my son replace the intake manifold because the old one had a crack in it. It was the least I could do. hehe

I see the bees are flying at both hives today, so I suppose that all is okay. (Famous last words.) I really do need to go thru them and see if the beetle numbers are down. If not,  I need to recharge the beetle traps again. Oh yeah, I just remembered that I have a church farmers’ market Saturday and I have not got the Observation Hive loaded yet. Ooops!

Well enough writing today. I have ta stop and git arginized afor I furgit it agin. Have a nice day and I will try to keep you posted on my preparations for the upcoming Bee College test.