4R Ranch

I have been checking on the bees all winter.  Every warm day there were always lots flying around.  When I would feed them, I could see lots...

The temperature got up to 50 today.  The warmest in a long time. I noticed the bees were out and about.  But on closer inspection, there wer...

We have newish gates at our working pens at BJ's.  The problem with older gates is if water gets in them it can freeze and they bust ope...

A client recently dropped off some honey at the clinic with instruction that when the honey bear was empty, let them know and they would bri...

 As you probably remember, all our bees died out this winter.  But they left us with hives full of honey and comb.  So I decided to try to...

It was a sad, sad day.  The weather was warm and I was cleaning around the bee hives.  But I wasn't seeing any bees.  They should have ...

I have finished straining and bottling the honey.  It looks a nice light color this year.  Still plenty of sticky clean up to do. But...

The bees did it!  We have honey this year.  I don't know what is going on in that first hive, no honey there.   They didn't make...

Our bees seem to be really good at making more bees (3 swarms this year) but are slacking in the making honey department.   Our newest h...

Coming home from Church Sunday I noticed something funny in the little maple tree in Draper's lot.  On closer inspection we saw that...

So Friday was suppose to be a day of light cleaning and getting ready for the wedding rehearsal.and rehearsal dinner.  But we live on a far...

With bees it is better to have and not need than the other way around.    If the temperature is over 65 then the bees can be active.  La...

J and I took off Sunday for a 3 1/2 hour trail ride.  The weather was perfect and the trails were in great shape.   Otoelene worked on...