Hello all :)  Great bunch of email in reply to my April Logbook which leaped us into the 2001 Beekeeping Season. I'll keep the recap to a minimum here, but if you haven't read the April Logbook, then you really need to in order to begin May with a clear idea of what we are up to, and most importantly how C1 and C2 are doing.

Shown here is the queen in C1 laying an egg into a cell that is BARELY drawn out. I mentioned in detail in April Logbook that queens lay in shallow cells, allowing the workers to build up the cells as the eggs and larva develop. 

Now that you are up to date - lol. C1 is gangbusters, storing 1 quart of sugar-water daily and drawing comb, storing pollen and making lots of room for this prolific queen to lay eggs. C2 is building 2 queen cells and hive activity has improved noticeably over the last few days.

Today is two weeks since I installed the bees into C1 & C2. I wasn't expecting to lose C2's queen so quickly, but it does help prove that Installing the Bees are often unpredictable. Think about it: they killed the queen LONG BEFORE she laid a single egg - dooming the colony. 

Why on earth should they do such a senseless thing? Lots of readers have offered opinions about this. A 4th grade class in Lima, Ohio asked: "What happens if they can't make a new queen? and why would they do that?" well, without intervention on my part, this unorganized colony with no eggs or larva to build a new queen from will just hang around the hive, flying occasionally, but they are missing the pheromone of the queen and no way to make a new one.

I did notice though that many of the bees had moved over to C1 where they were accepted by the workers. I mentioned last month that the bees on C1 stretched 5 frames across and C2 only three frames were covered by bees. The population of C2 though has remained steady since I placed a frame with egg cells in it.

May 4, 2001

Here are some eggs laid into C1. I have spotted larva and even capping in this colony, but this was the first egg photo I was able to capture with  My Olympus Digital Camera. Judging the age of eggs is tricky, they do grow ( or swell ) before hatching. But on this frame, there were no eggs the day before, making dating much easier. The eggs are stuck to the center of the cells bottom. They stand upwards in the direction the the queen exits the cell. Read more about the The Queen's role. Sorry for missing a few days of log keeping. I have been answering emails, something that I do my best to keep under 500 unanswered emails.

Thursday I received 247 beekeeping related emails: many new sign-ups for the Newsletter and lots and lots of questions. Luckily, I can often refer these emails to places on my site, or else where on the net: but often I need to spend time detailing unique problems and hopefully solutions to your problems.

I can see the day soon where the Newsletter and Logbook will merge into one interactive web page. This would make my job much easier, allowing me to spend more time writing detailed pages and hopefully getting all these photos up on the site as I've promised.

Saturday, I will be taking photos of the queen cells in C2. The activity today was very impressive and nearly as active as C1. It's amazing what a few queens in a doomed hive can do. I'm sure C2 will be fine, although C1 has a definite advantage, especially with the strong queen C1 has.

May 5, 2001

I promised that I would check out C2 and I was surprised to see 4 queen cells, all in various of stages of completion. All though were nearly done and all have workers diving in and out of the cells feeding the larva their Royal Jelly and closely working around drawing comb.

The activity of C2 still improves with the raising of the queens. I do think I'll grab at least ONE queen and raise her in a separate box - I'll probably convert a shipping cage and raise two queens at once, making one for my neighbor who wants a colony of his own. I think he'll get a nuc and we'll follow that one as it progresses.

I don't plan on letting the workers of C2 kill off the extra queens that they are making. I'll raise and keep them for future emergencies, as you found out last month - queen acceptance is not a guarantee. So having spare queens, especially from a strong queen as C1 has. If the new queens mimic their Mother, then C2 and the nuc are bound to be wonderful hives.

I also noticed lots of capped cells meaning I have LOTS of pupa just days away from emerging as my first home grown bees of the season. It's interesting to note that we have several months of beekeeping behind us now and lots of you have gone back and reread past months activities leading up to where we are now. It's going to be a wonderful Summer and come Winter we will all just have to keep our fingers crossed, as all beekeepers do.

May 10, 2001

Long week at my NEW JOB as Boiler Plant Operator of Power Plant Two, the Navy's 540 pound Steam Generation Plant for The purposes of Testing, Retrofitting, Repairing and Maintaining Air Craft Carrier Launch Valves, Dead loads and actual Jet Air Craft, at the Simulated Air Craft Carrier Launch Deck which I now supply steam to. 

I'm making 120 psi and 540 psi steam used to launch and test ALL the Navy's Air Fleet and also the Air Forces of many other countries. Pretty cool stuff. Lots to learn!

Back to bees :) I got into C1 and C2 today and BOY is everything Great and... on schedule!!! Lets talk about EACH

C1 I opened it up to find frames 1-6 drawn out at 85 percent of the 6 frames. Frames 7-10 were NOT Drawn on yet. I found the Queen happily doing Queen stuff on the outer side of frame 1.

I took frames 7-10 out and evenly weave them in between the drawn frames. This will encourage the workers to draw the foundation out quickly to accommodate a queen in need of a place to lay her 2000 eggs a day. Remember, each cell is occupied by a worker for 21 days. Cells are hard to come by if their aren't constant foundation drawing. 

C1 is doing awesome. I saw thousands of larva over 5 frames and tons of eggs. I will continue to feed them for two more weeks as they draw out frames 7-10. Then, we need to get serious and decide what we will do with C1. Just let it grow into a second super using a queen excluder if you guys want me to - I have two new ones.

Then there is C2 :) I am the proud FATHER of 3 SEALED OVER QUEEN PUPAS - in 5 short days I will have 3 virgin queens in C2 - NOW.... wasn't that easy???? It sounded all gloom and doom a few weeks back, remember? My queen just up and disappeared, as is reported more and more often. 
 

EXPERIMENT TWO: we are going to remove the bees from the frame in C2 with the 3 queen cells, and using either a deep razor knife, or a soldering iron as suggested by Herbert in Corning, NY. You simply leave about an inch or two around the queen cells and cut the section free from this Duragild Foundation and drawn comb.

The soldering iron keeps from overheating he says, as the wax melts around it. Then, simply wire this Queen Cell into a queen raising cage. Again, I'm going to convert my SHIPPING BOXES into Multiple Queen Rearing Boxes. It's going to be interesting, and I need to get it done tomorrow or Saturday at the latest. 

Tomorrow I will get good photos of the capped over queen cells as I do the transplant. Remember, I will brush all workers from this frame before doing the removal of the queen cell or cells. Either way, good photos coming.

May 11, 2001

Getting ready to take a queen cell from C2 to raise in the shipping box. I may raise TWO QUEENS in the shipping cage, divided in to TWO SECTIONS. I'll get you filled in this evening. It is Friday :) I got the weekend off and I hope to spend a few hours doing Bee Stuff for this log.

More and more I need to morph the Newsletter into the Log for that given month. More of a quick recap and a few good links, but MOSTLY it will lead you here - where I think I offer my best material :)

Ok.... It's 7pm now and I went in and took over 50 queen cell photos in C2. The TWINS are to similar sized cells on side 2 and a single LARGER queen cell is on side 1. The photos are all great and I'm pretty sure I'll get many photos up this weekend. 

Tomorrow, I'll be cutting out the second queen cell on side 2 ( one of the twins ) to transfer to a temporary queen rearing box made from the package bees shipping cage. 

Screen Shots for your computer wallpaper Collections of queen Cells. Note that a few photos have TWO QUEEN CELLS on them.

How was That for a surprise. Many of you been asking for wallpaper and I really got the file sizes Internet Friendly. Let me know if you are NOT getting QUALITY WALLPAPER IMAGES from the links above.

Tomorrow is Saturday, I will be doing the queen cell removals then. For now, I'm getting you photos uploaded. Write me please and let me know if you like my images. I hope they will do for all your classroom or lecturing needs too. Just set your printer to print in Landscape Mode. And choose FIT IMAGE TO PAGE to properly size the image for FULL PAGE PRINT OUT.

May 13, 2001

Really busy day with the bees. First, I retrofitted a shipping cage into custom queen raising hive. I took a frame Duragild and cut the length to fit inside a slit cut through the top and bottom of the shipping cage. I'll have these photos on-line Monday. 

I inverted the shipping cage so that the feeder can opening is nailed downward into a 2x6 bottom board. The slit needs to be about 3/8th inch wide and as long as the INSIDE of the shipping cage. Actual dimensions will be available soon. The foundation is dropped into the slit after a solid 2x6 board is nailed to the shipping cage. This prevents bees escaping. Then, I used a smaller board a 1x3 to cover the slip on the top of the new hive box. 

This box is really built well and has easy access to either side of the box quickly from handling the bees - although it is NOT easy to clean. You wont need a pollen source until after you queens are mated and laying eggs. As you see by the daily events of this logbook, then you know everything takes exact numbers of days, eggs, larva and pupa develop at set times and makes for easy timing of events.

This box will keep queens alive for a very long time if it had drawn comb and a clean-out tray. You can add a entrance tube - I like the great clear plastics they have today. If you need to mate a queen, a simple entrance tube and landing board ( 1x2x4 ) for easy return to the hive. Or with this box, just remove the feeder jar as an entrance/exit. Be mindful of your queen after she has flown and mated. Remember, the queen just mated with about 10 drones, 30 feet in the air during flight, I think she is Tired!!! Give her easy return to the colony and she will start laying in absolutely no time.

I'm not sure if I want to have these extra queens mated right away. I think I'll mate them just before introduction in another needy hive. So we have gone from 2 queens, to 1 queen and now back to 4 queens in just over 3 weeks - wow!!

Also, I'm dying of pollen as is everyone else in my area. Record hi pollen count and stupid me has the pollen trap on his porch. Not any more! I put the following equipment from the bottom board up.

Bottom board, C1 Super, Queen Excluder, Pollen Trap, second super with new frames and foundation, inner cover, lid. I mention this order purposely. I will change the order of boxes as time goes by, to meet the needs of the colonies.

Right now I'm keeping the C1 Super at the bottom - NOTE: the pollen trap is ON TOP of the bottom super. This bottom super is only 50% drawn, but I want some pollen and I want to see the bees as they get use to using the pollen trap.

The trap forces the bees to crawl through two series of wire mesh. The workers barely fit if they struggle through. The pollen is pulled from them as they struggle from mesh to mesh. Mind you, the workers hate to give up the pollen and they frantically search for a place to enter where they are not forced to give up their pay-load.

I watched for 5 hours today as 200 to 300 returning field bees hovered and bounced about looking for the entrance. I counted 3 times on average for entry acceptance through the trap. Each bee would land, walk about, fly off and try again. Sometimes the bees would make it through the first mesh square, but quickly return through the same side, still not sure of what to do.

I jokingly said aloud in a high pitch voice "Help us Beemaster!!! We do not know what you wish us to do!" lol. But seriously, after about 3 hours of the air born backup at C1s landing zone, I found smoother flow from field to hive through the pollen trap. The bees were learning that they needed to enter these tight quarters to successfully flow to and from the hive. Cool!

By the end of the day, all the bees were back inside C2 and by tomorrow, after a short learning period for the bees that DID NOT attempt this obstacle course, I expect to see minimal backups. 

Also, before you forget - we are still dealing with ALL ORIGINAL BEES. No bee in either of our hives was born from our queens. Remember. Eggs are destined. You have a queen emerge first, then a worker, then the drones. Queens come first cause of her importance to repopulating a colony. 

More on May 13, 2001

The shipping cage/queen rearing box was fun to build and will be know from this point on as C3. I have a feeder jar base installed into the front screened side of C3, so that I only need swap out feeder jars when they need filling. When I mate the queen ( soon my impatient friends ) in C3 I need only remove the jar to give her access to the outside.

I took the frame from C2 that held the three queen cells. To my surprise... One queen was walking around and another queen cell was emptied. I took the lone cell and literally used a knife and propane torch to slowly cut out a circle through the plastic foundation and safely around the queen cell. That left a huge hole that I will closely watch the bees replace with real comb. 

I used a bees wax candle dripping on the sheet of foundation as a glue and fastened the queen cell to it. Then I tossed about 1/2 pound of bees into the cage and sealed it up. Within 20 minutes, the bees clustered around the queen cell, anxious to see a new queen BECAUSE they already know that the queen is missing but a queen cell is only hours or a day away from emerging onto the small piece of comb.

This cage though is lame for LONG-TERM rearing because it is NOT easily cleanable. Dead bees, old bees like these will be kicking the bucket from natural causes really really soon. Again, the ONLY BEES that are NEW are the New Queen in C2 and the Queen Cell in C3. Of course C1 has had a great queen all along. 

I imaging that the C3 workers have a live and hopefully well queen in the mitts today. I really thought I was playing against the clock yesterday when I had one Missing and presumed dead queen, one healthy hours old queen walking happily on the comb and a perfectly developed queen cell on the opposite side of the frame.

So now we have 3 colonies :) They add up quickly. Before you know it C3 will be a viable hive that I predict will easily keep up with C2 and I believe C2 has lots of promise too! Over the next few days, we will be mating queens, moving larva again, starting a five frames Nuc for C3 to move into and lots of other stuff. 

Keep writing me, this log is tons of work and I could use all the cheers I can muster. The new job is mind boggling with the high and super high steam systems - gonna take me a bit to get it down, that's for sure.

Workers are next, they come fast and heavy with a good queen. And drones hatch last. Seldom drones are laid by a healthy queen. But to date, we are waiting on QUEENS - Tuesday I figure :)
5 days later EXPECT tons of new WORKER BEES to emerge and again and again EVERY DAY in C1 because of the STRONG egg laying of C1's Queen.

May 18, 2001

The weather has be cool and way too dry for the entire month, tree pollen at a record high. The locus tree has flowers that look like popcorn, but hang like grapes - they are lightly lavender in scent and I have hundreds of these tree directly across the street from my home. 

C3 had so many bees in the cluster, I had no way of telling if the queen was in there Note to self: way less bees next time, I say TWO CUPS of BEES - lol, never measured them that way before. I took one good firm shake to loosen the bees from around the queen cell and to my dismay - the queen cell was still not open. This is not good! I did the math and this is a dead queen. 

Remember C2 had 3 queen cells, two emerged, one remained and I took the last cell and placed it in C3. Well, There were no more than 2 days in age between all the eggs on the frame that we placed in C2 from C1. No way is this queen alive and THINK ABOUT THIS, I guess that is why C2's workers DIDN'T kill this queen off, they knew it was NO THREAT to the surviving queen - wow!

I have the queen cell on my desktop, I'll use this for demonstration purposes. I cut it out of the frame with a hot knife heated by a small propane tank. I shook the bees from C3 back onto the inner cover of C2. They alerted to each other, but generally speaking the bees blended back in together fine.

I need to work on C3's design. I think a good plan using shipping cages as queen rearing boxes is great. If you have any plan ideas, please send them to me, I'd love to share them with everyone. More tonight.

May 21, 2001

C2's queen is mated and laying eggs!!!I took out several frames and found eggs on several sides. I saw the queen too and she is growing nicely. Workers really don't grow much after they emerge from the cells, but queens grow greatly in length as their reproductive system develops. Just think a week or two ago we had total uproar in this sad excuse for a colony. Now it has a chance again. Remember: it takes 21 days for these newly laid eggs to emerge into the hive - at which time they would normally start tending to newly laid eggs, cell cleaning and larva feeding.

But the number of workers from the package will be much older as the first bees from this newly mated queen emerge. I did give them one frame of workers, I think it's time to give them another frame of capped pupa though this time. Pupa will hatch in days compared to weeks if most the cells are filled with eggs or larva.

The colony is at a crossroad in it's developmental state. Older bees want to forage, they are now building comb and doing it very reluctant. I don't think they understand the number of cells that a good queen will need. Soon though, she will have limited space if the bees aren't busy drawing out the comb. Workers will chip in and do any job when necessary, but as a cost. It's like pulling over-time. It's nice for a while, but it wears you down after a while. For now, I think it important to have C2 get use to having a healthy laying queen. I don't need to spook them now - to lose a queen at this stage is horrific to C2's success.

I would start C2 over with 3 pounds of bees from C1 and a new queen I'll raise too. By then, I'd have the choice of building C1 upwards or divided. C1 is making tons of workers and C2 could be a great place to introduce a swarm. More very soon.

The next few days are hectic again. Much of this is written later in the week and added as I get the time. I don't think anyone could complain about the volume I produce, I then to be prolific while writing - but I do need shorter pages so you don't need to scroll as much.

You'll see that lots of what we do with our hives is totally relative to any given situation. I think we had more than our hands full in May and as you will read, we have lots of days left and Fred is coming to visit over the Memorial Day Weekend!!!
 

May 25, 2001

Sorry it's been so long since I updated the page. Many of you wrote and asked what's going on. I just finished 4 great days with my young friend and helper Fred. He came Friday night and stayed all through the Memorial Day Weekend. Here's what happened over those few days.

The weather forecast for the Eastern US was gloomy, but somehow we got through MOST of the weekend without rain spoiling our fun. Friday night we just hung out and planned our weekend after a short trip to Home Depot to pick up some Quickrete Cement Mix and to price some 2x4s. We had lots to do, including beekeeping on our list, but it was also a work and play time for both of us. Saturday was frustrating: we got to do a few neat things, but we were looking forward to going to Wall Stadium to the Stock Car Races. Wall is a 1/3rd mile highly banked track ( 35 degrees in the turns ) they race small block modified, street stocks, antique cars and also have demolition derbies throughout the Summer. 

Mid-Afternoon was interesting. We went to Robert J. Miller Air-Park to see the touring Viet Nam Wall. A 240 foot replica of the wall in Washington, DC. They did a great job of setting up the area which is usually saved for the Ocean County Fair. The wall itself was identical to the real wall, minus the sloping ends where the wall returns to the earth.

The idea of the was is shown in a passage of time. The was starts at a small point at ground level and it swiftly rises to a height of 8 foot to show the escalation of the war. It holds over 58,200 names of lost and missing military and then the was again slopes back to the ground, showing the war as we slowly returned our troops home in 1976. It is awe inspiring no matter how many times you see it. A quick note, when Tracey and I saw the wall the first time, we has been only feet away, but I couldn't find the wall. I knew where it was in relationship to the rest of the monuments: near the Lincoln Memorial and just north of the Reflective Pool. But what I didn't know was that the wall was build into a large earthen bank, representing the burial of all these soldiers. Only while facing North along the reflective pool could you see the wall in it's magnificent. To the North, where it was totally invisible from view. I finally noticed several people's heads popping up as they walked the length of the wall.

Back home, I had bought a hundred fresh Cherry Stone Clams from by where Fred Lives and we had a great time making my clam chowder recipe ( found in my cooking section ) - it took a few hours to cut up the carrots, celery, potatoes, tomatoes and the house was full of friend onions cooked in bacon. We had 7 quarts of chowder when we were done and Fred got to take some home with him Monday.

But after waiting all day with no rain to speak of, we took the drive to Wall Stadium and it was closed up tight. A handful of other spectators drove around the parking lot too, all of us wondering why they canceled the races - I suppose they canceled them in anticipation of a weekend of foul weather. Anyway, we decided to go to Freehold Raceway Mall, a huge shopping Mall about 15 miles from the race track. Fred got himself a sterling silver 20" chain and we split a hot corned beef sandwich.

May 26, 2001

After staying up to 3am playing Unreal Tournament on my laptop, Fred and I packed up the laptop and each of us went to bed. He said my simple tuck-a-way couch/bed was very comfortable and he would gladly sleep on it any-time. We both slept until about 10:30am Sunday morning. After a hearty breakfast we putzed around the yard awhile and then decided to try the Paintball Center in a nearby town of Manchester.

Now, I never tried paintball before, but I was very willing to try. We found the place open and a large group was just about done for the day: they had been there 5 hours already. At first it seemed that we weren't going to get out at all. The daily fee is $30 and I really wasn't going to play at that fee with only the two of us and for only an hour or so.

But a group of 8 men and women came just as we were leaving. They also had never played paintball before and the owner gave us all a break and charge $10 per person, plus $7 each for camouflage jump-suits and $30 for 500 paintballs. 

After a short safety talk and a few practice shots, we headed for the capture the flag arena. I didn't mention that this was an outdoor facility with 80 acres of play area. I got to captain the team with the arm bands. Fred was my runner and in game two he was able to capture the enemy flag and return it to our base for the win. Fred's stomach wasn't the same that day. His adrenaline was pumping and he still had jittery hands hours later.

The first game was a blast. Having bio-degradable paintballs zipping at your head at 200 miles an hour is thrilling. Getting trapped behind a tree that's not much larger than your leg is interesting too. I took some serious head shots, but the shot to my right knee took me down fast. I laid there yelling "Medic!!!", but of course there was no one to tend to my minor war wound :)

After several games we finally got to shoot at each other some. I instigated it, Fred yelled at me saying: "We're on the same team!!" I said in return "If I don't shoot you at least once, I'll have a hard time sleeping." So in the last 2 minutes of paintball, we plummeted each other with paint. It was a great time and it helped fill the gap that we missed at the stock car races.

May 27, 2001

Monday was a bright and sunny day and we got to do a little yard work. We had started out hoping to do some decorative brick work this weekend, but the weather was still "Iffy" so we settled for a little wood stacking and grass planting.

I broke out the Ham Radio, but I got into Unreal Tourney again and Fred and I just took on aliens instead of talking to the world. It is interesting to note that SINCE the creation of the Internet, HAM has lost some of it's thrill. In Internet chat, you can talk anywhere, any time and none of the interference.

So I took Fred home, which is about 40 miles away. It was the end of an almost perfect weekend - if only they held the stock cars races. Oh well... It was just fine spending it with Fred, he is truly a great kid and his Mother should be proud. I hope he gets to stay again before he leaves for Florida in late June to visit with his Father for the Summer.

What about C1 and C2 you say???  I can hear many of you now: what the heck has any of this got to do with Beekeeping?? Well, it does show you that even with Beekeeping, photography, writing, boiler plant operating, etc., there is STILL time enough to enjoy life and this weekend we did :)

We did look into BOTH colonies on Saturday and Sunday and C1 continues to kick butt. Tomorrow I put a second super on C1. It might take a while to establish this box, but I'd rather be ready for the next growth spurt in this colony and MORE IMPORTANTLY, I don't want to provoke swarming. 

C2 is not as good as it awaits the FIRST generation of workers from this newly mated queen. Its still two weeks away from new workers emerging from their cells in C2. Meanwhile the workers from the packaged bees are getting smaller and smaller in number. I will also take some capped pupa from C1 and place into C2 and add some young, energetic workers to this colony. 

Eventually C2 will catch up with C1 - it may not happen until late in the season, but it is still possible to see swarming from C2. You need to be patient though, C2 needs to catch up with with C1 in the following ways: comb production and drawing out foundation, brood in development, workers of all ages and also honey production. I doubt that C2 will store even half of what C1 will by the end of the season, but I think it will be a strong colony if THIS newly mated queen has a strong pheromone and egg laying ability. Only time will tell, we'll know lots more in June.

May 30, 2001

Today is Tracey's Birthday and I will be very busy for a few days. The Navy Flight Precision Team, the Blue Angels are coming tomorrow and I will be working 3 days at the Air-Show here in Lakehurst. I'll have lots of photos of the many stunt pilots and Blue Angels in action as the week goes on.

I hope you have enjoyed May's Logbook. I try to keep it light and interesting and informative. At times it seems like you travel along with me, like a friend sitting next to me in a car. I'll see you in a few days in the June Logbook. The Summer is flying by and the logbook pages are building up nicely. It's turning out to be a story book in it's own right. Many of you read along and it's great that you find such interest in my very average life. The Internet has really made Travelogs and diaries available for all of us to travel in someone else's steps. 

May 31, 2001

It's Thursday morning and I was just in the mood to write. A few of the stunt planes are flying and still only one Blue Angel is here - although they are due to practice at my Power Plant at 3:30pm today. I do have a neat job, having multiple jets flying 500 miles an hour over my head at 100 feet while loud Incoming AirCraft Warning Sirens and lights flash. I'm sure I'll have more later, I always do - lol.

Now it's 7pm and I had a pretty neat and unique afternoon. All 7 Blue Angels are parked only 200 feet from my Power Plant and I got to watch six of them fly. I had to drive through the SECRET GATE and wind my way down dirt roads to get to work, all of the taxi way I travel to get to work was secured because it was in the flight maneuver area. It was almost 8 miles of gravel road which was cleared only days ago by huge tanks and ground levelers.

My plant finished its testing of the high-pressure boiler early and the plant was wrapped up by time we got there! Cool. Most of the afternoon we sat watching the jets and stunt planes practicing. For you avid readers, I still haven't hear back from Public Affairs about photographing the show digitally. They really disappoint me in their communication skills. I will say that I am sur prized that a department so close to the Captain is so incapable of making commitments and sticking to them. The disappoint me again and again and now even when the job is to volunteer to film the Airshow, they still are too uninformed to know what a good thing they are missing.
 

Oh well :) Tomorrow is the Airshow for families and employees only!!! I will have lots of photos for you I hope and we'll see how good I am at taking action shots with my olympus. See you all then. PS, Fred will be there tomorrow with his family, I'll get photos of everyone for you to see.

Write me and let me know if you enjoyed May's Log. See you in June's Logbook.