I have been a busy beekeeper on my virtual farm, Farmville. I have 4 virtual bee hives and they contain 200 bees with only one queen for 4 hives. Not beekeeper accurate, but fun nonetheless. All I have to do is click on the hives to collect my honey each day and earn hundreds of virtual coins. In order to build the hives I had to collect wooden beams, nails and bricks from my fellow Farmville neighbors. One of them asked what you need bricks for to build a hive. A fellow beekeeper replied, the brick is to put on top to keep the hive lid from blowing off in the wind! They had that part right.

Next week I will have to do the real harvesting of the real honey, a much more difficult job. Sticky, hot and heavy, I am looking forward to a lovely honey harvest this year. Now to hope for warm, not hot and dry weather that week.

Again our last meeting welcomed new members. We were pleased to have the following new members join us: Katherine Golder, Christopher French, Everette C. Robinson, Michael Arruda.