Bee day!

Yesterday was bee day!

After completing my beginners course back in April ish, hubby and I negotiated over having a hive of bees- he said I could have some next year, for my birthday in November this year.
Last week the association newsletter came out, with an advert saying someone was selling their colonies off in Nationals for a very very modest price, so at the earliest opportunity I phoned her. Now, before phoning, we agreed amongst ourselves that one hve was enough. After the call I had reserved 2.
Fast forward a week, and yesterday we spent the day frantically trying to buy hubby a bee suit as he wanted to help collect them. 3 hours later we found a red boiler suit, which I then modified, and we set up a hive stand made of pallets (salvaged from the side of a road). last night at dusk we went to collect the bees, and we brought them home in the dark, all 20,000 ish of them.
I will add pictures soon, but later today I will do my first hive inspection- how exciting!