OK, don’t get excited. The beehive you see doesn’t have any bees in it. That is still to come.
For now, the woodware I got from Ecrotek is just being stored there, waiting until the nuc arrives to populate it.
But it isn’t all new woodware (and new gloves and veil) – I will still be using my hive tool and smoker from about 40 years ago.
I’ve done my best to refurbish the smoker a bit, as it was never all that good. But I’ve plugged up a few holes, and tried to sort out the flap valve that controls the air. We’ll see…