You are fine....trust me. When i first got mine, I was in them every other day without smoke. Watching and learning from them. Remember this, there is a ton of advice here, but you have to let the bees teach you. They will let you knw how they feel. You leave all of mine alone on a cloudy for example. One last bit of advice.....the bees dont read the books written by us.....trust me...I have tried convincing mine to, but they just wont....they will throw the paper off the front porch for me though...