A Beekeeper's Life on Bedrest....

Lori is officially on bedrest now, but that doesn't stop her from working. The docs said she could sit in a recliner with a laptop, so she has been busy updating the website, making phone calls for honey, and blogging. All of which is stuff that needed to be done.

And if it wasn't mentioned before - we are expecting identical triplet boys.

But on to other news: We have Bamboo Honey in! As soon as we strain the "bee bits" out, we will have it posted on the website, and send out a coupon to the email list. We are expecting a large order of Almond Honey within the next week or two, and will have that posted as well. This is also the year that we hope to get Radish Honey back in, but we are still waiting to hear from the beekeeper on that one....

One of Lori's "bedrest projects" is to update our candle listings! We have literally hundreds of candles that are not listed online, some of which we have not even displayed at shows yet. Lori's sister was kind enough to test out her new camera while taking pictures of most of them. We hope to crop and post these pictures within the 6 weeks. Some of these candles are simply amazing - 12-18" Chinese dragons, wizards, farm animals.....there should be something for everyone.

In other news - Colony Collapse Disorder has hit the country for the second year in a row. Many of the larger beekeeping operations have already closed for business, unable to make expenses. It is becoming increasingly difficult to find honey, and as a result, we expect to raise our prices sometime in August. The price of gas certainly isn't helping, either. The larger beekeeping operations use gas-powered equipment to process honey and beeswax, not to mention moving the bees around to the next crop, or to ship honey to distributors. This is going to be a hard year, indeed.

But, on the good side, except for a cool spring in Florida, growing conditions seem to be good in the majority of the country. We hope to find more varieties of honey, even if honey in general is hard to find. This should be an interesting year.....