We were up on Mt. Lemmon today, fishing and there was a little rain as we were leaving, about 5PM. Cloudy over much of the city and some local rain, of limited quantity. Perhaps this weekend it may start (I'll sure be happy when we start getting some significant rainfall).
I have a nuc with three combs of honey and about a pound of nurse bees where I hold ripe queen cells (my queen cell "finisher"). There are three cells remaining there, on a bar. In the morning, I need to move them over to individual mating nucs.
I have two bars of six cells each in my queen cell builder, one bar is about five days ahead of the other. The older bar should all be sealed sometime tonight, then, in the morning, I'll move them to the cell "finisher" nuc, making room for another bar, this time with a set of ten fresh grafts which I'll also do in the morning.
My queen cell builder colony is presently housed in a deep, 5-frame nuc with 15/32" plywood walls and a screened bottom. I only use medium frames, so the extra space beneath the frames is a good place for extra nurse bees to cluster, and they do. I continuously feed the queen cell builder nuc with fresh pollen substitute patties and between flows, with a thin sugar syrup.