I've almost got everything moved down from the house to the storage container. And everything is pretty much organized! Thank you to Mom, Dad & Brittany who helped me out tremendously with that project! This week/weekend Dad is staying up in the trailer and meeting with contractors to get bids on the demolition and framing of the house. We are hoping to have the help of one of my cousins to put of the perimeter fencing in the next few weeks so we can finally bring up Roxy and Arnold (our dogs).
About three weeks ago, Dad and Mom when to a picnic in Orland for Northern California Beekeepers and picked up two boxes of bees my dad had ordered. On their way back to Bangor they stopped to visit me at the Chico Farmer's Market. Then after work I met them in Bangor and we watched Dad introduce the bees to the hive. Unfortunately, we weren't quite as prepared as we should have been and didn't have a feeder and the super boxes for the hives that he bought were the wrong size for the supers he already has. We had to use some American ingenuity to create some feeders out of old juice containers. As of last week, the both the new hives are thriving and hopefully we won't have to buy any more hives from outside sources for a very long time.
I hopefully will have a bit more time to post with only two weeks left of school for the summer, but I'm still going to be busy with my summer jobs! We are all stoked for this new home and can't wait to see our dream become a reality!
