Bees are home sooner.

The bees are back home thanks to a night with no sleep and a really cool dolly that Bryant's Brother made for moving bees around with. The bees made their trip back from California on Wednesday or Thursday of last week. Our beekeeper friend has some bee yards in Mesquite and his bees got placed there so ours did as well. We started for Mesquite at 4:00 pm and left Mesquite with a load of bees at 1:30 am. We had to move the bees off of the pollinating pallets that holds four hives to individual bottom boards, there were 38 hives. The kids went with us and had fun watching movies in the Excursion, including Bee Movie (pretty appropriate), and then had a sleepover in the Excursion. Poor kids, they sure are good sports with their crazy mom and dad. We decided that we better just drive around and place bees when we got back to Kanab, because it was almost daylight and the bees would be flying soon. So we placed bees in 5 of our bee yards. They are all VERY heavy. Bryant's brother is starting up bees too and both of the guys had seen these dollys that you can use to wheel bees around with and so Matt made one, because holy cow they cost a lot, and it works FABULOUS! We got back to our house at 10 am Sunday morning. Got the kids ready for church and went to Church. Bryant stayed home because he worked harder than me. I fell asleep at 3 after fixing my family a wonderful Sunday dinner of hotdogs and mac and cheese, what a slacker I am, and didn't even move for 3 hours after finally laying down. We have come to find out that sometimes the bees just require that you pull an all nighter. It went pretty good. Bryant got stung way too many times to count. There was something wrong with his veil, we soon got it figured out, but not before his neck became a pin cushion. He was a little swollen Sunday. Poor guy. I only got stung twice. Such a different story from the last time we moved bees like this. I didn't have a full body suit last time, love the full body suit! Mesquite was beautiful with all of the wild flowers in bloom. Who would have thought Mesquite had it in itself to do that?? It really would be a great place to keep the bees when it is blooming the way that it was, but a heck of a drive to work bees.