Update from Steve:
Last Monday morning, I rendezvoused with Arvin in Gilbert to pick up two loaner supers. He wasn't surprised to hear how well our bees are doing, since "everything's blooming." He repeated how impressed he is with the health of our hives and said, perhaps jokingly, we might end up with four supers on each hive by the end of the season, although he thinks three more likely. He said all this blooming might just come to an abrupt halt without more rain.
Late that afternoon, warm, blue skies, Chris, Geetha, Melissa and I added the supers to our hives. The hives looked great, with Blue's first super nearly full, too. We each held a frame full of honey, amazed as always at the heft of the thing. The hive itself much weigh over a hundred pounds. We sampled Green's very light, golden honey. Delicious--although Geetha said it lacked the "citrus" edge of honey she had sampled from Blue.
Monday night a whopper of a storm hit--at least where I live. My heavy, full garbage can up at the top of our road blew over, which made me nervous about those new, towering supers that had yet to be glued down. So I drove out Tuesday morning to make sure all was well with the ladies. Yup, nothing had budged.
With a fair bit of luck, we might just end up with an extra two for four supers full of honey for ourselves at the end of the season. Maybe we could sell it to raise some dough for the next hive bodies.
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