Howdy from northern California

[kustomizer]

My bride and I have a 25 acre piece of dirt in the heart of the California gold rush country. A solar powered machine shop owns us and since we are stuch here the majority of the time we have animals to keep us busy. here are 17 goats, 4 chickens, 1 duck, a pig, a large white guardian dog that lives with the animals, a black rott that lives underfoot of my bride, and now around 40,000 bees that are on their way soon. I have been busy putting together boxes, frames and a bench to set them all on and painting everything that will experiance the weather. I am going to start with 4 hives and see where we go from there.

[tecumseh]

howdy from central texas.

hope you enjoy your experience with beekeeping.

[berkshire bee]

Sounds like a good start. Do you run the machine shop?

[Laurence Hope]

Hello, Kustomizer,
I bought some beekeeping equipment from a lady near San Andreas, and we spent a nice
night in your local bed and breakfast place there. We really enjoyed our trip to and around San Andreas. For us flatlander valley folks it was a pleasure. Welcome to the common thread of bees that we all share.

[Ravenseye]

Hello from the other coast! Glad you're here. Interesting mix of critters...the kind of mix I like!

[kustomizer]

San Andreas is a nice little town, a lot of gold rush as well as agricultural history here.

I think the machine shop runs us sometimes, but yes we run it, we make a wide varity of widgets, the big boss has started making a web site to display some but it has been a slow process. www.skoobyzzstuff.com ( no bee stuff yet ). I read somewhere that "life is what happens while you are making other plans" and that just about sums up things around here.

thanks for the warm welcome, I hope to be prepared before the bees get here but I imagine there will be some rushing around at the end to keep things interesting.

[KQ6AR]

Hi,
I have a few friends near you. Two in Mountain Ranch, & the other out Sheep Ranch.

Dan

[Juliette]

Hi there! Good luck with your beekeeping adventures! Let us know how it goes

I'm interested in finding out the best places to get a bee package in Northern California. We're brand new beekeepers, getting ready to get our first bees.

Have a great day,
Juliette

[kustomizer]

I don't know about the best but we are hoping ot get ours on time and healthy, beyond that I guess it is up to my bride and I.

[Juliette]

I guess I was curious about what you and your bride decided as far as 'where' you were getting your bees - will it be through the Delta Bee club, or through a local company? We've placed our order with a company in Chico, and they'll be picked up first week of April.

Hope you enjoyed the club meeting.

[kustomizer]

We ordered our bees from some folks in Dixon, the UPS man is supposed to bring them to us around the 10th of next month. I had not heard of the Delta Bee club at the time we ordered them. We did not make the meeting, we chickened out and blamed it on the thundershowers ( we were having Kansas type rain ) and for some reason folks around here have to hurry up and get there before they have a wreck and the next thing they know they are the first ones to the scene of the accident. I would rather not be the one they run into.

[walking bird]

hey kustomizer, you getting your bees from Phil over at Noble Apiaries in Dixon? I'm picking four packages up from him on April 4th.