I am in a quandary! Here I am telling you what is needed to be done in a timely manner and I am guilty of putting off what really needs to be completed. You should have been finished with your honey pulling and extracting by now. The honey should be either in your bottling tank, or holding bucket, or settling tank, if you don’t already have it in your shipping barrels.

I only have three hives and one observation hive and am caretaker of tow other observation hives. Out of all this, I have 5 supers of honey  to extract. Should have done this about, at the latest, October 14th. If I had not procrastinated, I would have had an empty super on each of the three hives and the bees could have been putting on Goldenrod honey for Winter to go along with the one full Illinois super of honey I originally planned to leave. This would have insured that I would not have to feed the bees in the late Winter and early Spring.

This is one of those time that “do as I say and not what I do” comes into play. Remember that at the beginning I said that this website is to tell you what I do in my apiary and not what the book says. Common sense tells us that to keep the bees healthy and to keep the beekeeper from getting jammed up, one should do the things necessary as they come up and spread the work around over a longer period of time. After all you only have a certain amount of time to work because you need to rest, eat, sleep, read, plan, study, and have time to go to the different bee meetings that we all need to attend.

Have a good day and enjoy your little friends.