Blessed Holy Saturday to you, as Jesus lays in the tomb and visits the souls in Hades.

Katie and I drove 2 hours to Navasota today and got our bees from B. Weaver:

When we arrived, we went into a big warehouse, and there were about 4 people in it.  I gave them my name and then they went to one of the big stacks of bee packages and pulled ours out:

They gave us some advice for how to put them into the hive, and after only 10 minutes at the B. Weaver apiary, we were back on the road for 2 hours to Austin.

We got home and the bees were a bit angry, probably due to the bumps on the road and music in the car and smells of our lunch (Chinese food for Katie and Whataburger for me).  So we set them down on a box in the living room by the front door and sprayed them with sugar water to feed them.  This made them happy bees.

Then I made up a huge batch of sugar water with about 5 pounds of sugar and a gallon and a half of water.  This was then put into the white pail feeder, which is inverted on the screen side so that the bees can go up to it and eat.

The frames are prepared with starter strips interleaved with some full sheets of small-cell foundation (which is wax embossed with the hexagon-shaped honeycomb pattern, that the bees then draw out (extrude) into usable cells for honey, pollen, and their eggs).

Katie took video of the installation of the bees into the hive, which I am uploading and going to post soon!