top bar hive inspection

I picked up the kindle edition of The Thinking Beekeeper: A Guide to Natural Beekeeping in Top Bar Hives by Christy Hemenway last week and read it. I was able to get it for 9.99 and I needed something to read on a trip out of town so I figured it would be a good choice. This is the third Top Bar...

While going through the hives today, I realized that I had changed over the two seasons I've been working these hives. I'm more careful now to close the space up between bars that I have inspected before I take out the next one. It occurred to me how much easier this is than leaving them spaced...