For the last several months i have been doing a lot of reading on bee keeping. I'm not sure what got me started on this idea maybe it was a video on you-tube maybe it was all the reports on the news about the bee's dying. I joined the local bee keepers club about a month ago. The first time i went i didn't expect there to be a lot of people and i expected those that where there to be above retirement age. I was wrong. Every time i go to a meeting there's at least 30 of us there. The ages are spread from around 20 to a very fresh 87. Everyone is so nice and helpful and they all love bees or honey or both.
Last weekend I found 2 Trugstader on line cheep. There was a very kind man who had kept bees for 5 years who due to ill health was selling off all his bee gear. He sold me everything i needed for the two hives. Trugstader are popular in Denmark I will post some pictures of the insides in another post. I like them mainly because they are made of wood and will look better in my garden then a bunch of plastic boxes stacked on top of each other.
as a fun side note. I came home from work the other day and the ants had found the bee hives. Apparently there is still something good in them. There was a little army of ants going in and out of one of the hives. I guess they need a good cleaning and paint job before i get the bees.