Morningside Honey

OK, as most of you have figured out by now, I'm not the most prolific social media poster. (If everyone was like me, Facebook would likely be out of business by now.)

Anyhow, partially as a challenge to myself, and partially as a way to hopefully bless all of you during this stressful time, I've committed to post a little something each day over the next few weeks as all of us try to stay home to help one another. So here's my first . . .

In our backyard, I have a little shed that I constructed a few years back to house our "spare" equipment. Some is truly spare, some is retired (but sometimes used in a pinch), and some is seasonally rotated in and out of service (such as honey supers and top feeders).

A couple of weeks ago, I went out to pull out some honey supers for a couple of our hives, and found myself confronted with this "trespasser" on our equipment (see first picture).

He paid me no attention, and I wasn't sure, at first, if he was even alive. I was afraid I would accidentally hurt him while I was moving boxes around, and asked Marianne what she thought I should do. She suggested I move him.

Well, that's when I found out he was definitely alive. He squirmed in my hands, and did his best to get out. I put him in an old pond that has filled up with leaves over the years, and he sat there for the rest of the day, and gave me the suspicious look you see in the second picture.

He stayed there the rest of the day, but was gone when I returned the next morning. Hope he's found himself a young lady to be friends with . . .

By the way, what kind of frog do you think he is? Is he a native in these parts, or an escapee from someone's terrarium?

I got most of the remaining bees on the post into the hive, closed it up, and moved it over to a nearby hive stand. You can see the girls' new home in the picture below. it's the hive in the middle.