I keep the brood viable in a fridge given to me by a good friend. These bees from a tree limb will go on to prosper with careful re-hiving at my near Alvin apiary.I am now up to 40 hives just at this home place, and new ones every day.

Sometimes two beekeepers are needed. I am thankful to have met Kelly who helped on this job. He was my hero at the end of the day. This is the second colony of the 3 we relocated to my place near Alvin. 

This giant colony was also inside of the porch roof. This house had three colonies.I had help from another beekeeper on this job.

A couple of weeks ago I helped out the "A" team bee crew.  Getting bees for a friend, this new beekeeper is learning the ropes of beekeeping by seeing bees in their environment. It is interesting to see how they build when they get to choose. The homeowner got lots of honey!

Here is the "A" team beekeepeer with some of his bees. They enjoy shade from the hot texas sun. All of these bees were saved from extermination by a pest control operator. Thanks for saving the bees if you were ever a customer of mine. It does make a difference to do the right thing.

A HCBA member has been helping me out with Japhet creek bee yard and we extracted some honey from those bees last Sunday. His new extractor is a thing of beauty!  Soon I will be extracting from all apiaries. Thanks to the "A" team, my bee helpers, they are teaching me things about bees as we exchange information, and they gain valuable beekeeping experience. 

Then Alex brought lots of rain and the beehives seemed to be in a bad spot. Before the next one comes they all are going on tall stands further back in the shade. Thanks to a HCBA member who made me a steel hive stand. I will be getting more soon. It is the stand closest to the cameras in this photo.  The chickens have hatched 6 chicks, something got one yesterday, but all in all things are great, the chickens love it out here.
These are bee removal jobs from the last two months who are thriving now. I challenge any other bee removal companies to show their bees. I can guarantee you they can not. I could name names too... If they say they keep the bees alive then ask to see photos of those bees. In fact those of us who care actually look out for the bees and gather information about individuals who illegally remove bees so watch out guys, I am looking out for our provider, this planet earth. 

Last Wednesday it was big and windy thanks to Alex.

monday afternoon at surfside. I had gone to a clients house to work that morning and they had left town unexpectedly and the person answering the door did not know about the bee removal job I was to do. So I surfed small waves from 6-8pm. that day. Got some important bee work done at the house too.

I have gotten chickens for my home. They are asian jungle fowl (rooster & 4 hens), Americana, and Rhode island reds. I have 8 in all. They free range all day on my 1.6 acres and get in their coop every night and I shut the door. The reds lay double yolk eggs. Chickens love to eat drone grubs and hive beetles. Wax moths are a special treat. They watch me unload the truck when I get home to see what treats I have. I have had them since April and really enjoy their company. One is roosting under the trailer and I think I may see chicks soon, or a fox or coon will get her. Heard some commotion the other night and in the morning she was in a tree. Skunk had come through, he may have gotten those eggs.