I also do jar or pail feeding on top of hive, over the hive cover with hole in the middle. This will be inside a empty box and some insulation keeping the syrup warm. When changing or filling this, some bees might come out of the hole, [inner cover]...nothing major, no need smoking. Smoking them a little calms them down and you can work the hive easier, not really needed in small population...but when you have two deep hive body full of bees it's a different story. Lets say you put a honey super on over two deep brood boxes, ..it might be one brood box in your case, sometimes a ton of bees are all over the box, smoke will drive them down...it's like herding them, then your'e not squashing bees on top of box when putting another one on. Check if you see the girls bringing in pollen, hind legs with pollen baskets.

(formerly GKGK): Good to hear about the baby leaves! That is a good sign. I suggest waiting to feed until you can confirm the leaves go beyond the small size and you have a few inches of new branch growth. I have a Wash.Navel and Red Blush that were recovering from over feeding (with small "baby" leaves) last July. i gave them more food - - and that stopped the growth. The Red Blush is just now starting to grow again. The WN is stagnant - but i have been flushing.... Stunted growth is a symptom of Nitrogen deficiency. If you have damaged the roots then the plant cannot take up the nutrients and only gets hammered by the salts.

We feed her twice a day like the vet recommended. She's not deaf, she'll look at wear the sound is coming from, but won't respond, like she's ignoring us, or trying to. The other dog actually calmed her anxiety, she's a jealous dog, that can be sneaky though, which I forgot to inform you guys about (sorry, i was sort of panicking.) When she was a puppy we couldn't leave her a cage, that was around x5's bigger then her in the first place, because she had anxiety issues and would scratch her head against the side until it bled. So we got her a brother, and everything changed and she's really nice now. But Chester, Sophies "brother", is a soft-coated wheaten terrier, we've already took him to around 4 different trainers, I guess it's just his instincts preventing him changing into a nicer, calmer, relaxed, less dirty dog. ( We wash/groom him, but he loves going outdoors..so.ha.) And yes, we are feeding her a quality dog food that you can only buy at certain pet stores, not PetCo/PetSmart. Do they do blood work when dogs go into surgery? I know it may sound silly, but I'm sure if she's already gotten blood work done for all that. She had surgery earlier this summer for skin-tags, and cracked teeth, in multiple areas for the skin-tags. I really hope it's nothing more then old age, if there's cancer, It would really crush me. She's one of the prettiest weimaraners ever, well, not to be conceited, but she really is a pretty one. Oh, and she's kind of getting more paranoid in a sense. Getting scared really easily, I don't know why! We treat our dogs with respect like their our family, which they are, and there's no pet-abuse in the family either. (Never ever ever will that happen!)

It's nice to see a post from you Kat, and wouldn't you know, it's because you're concerned about someone else. I DO hope you're feeling ok these days and that your treatments are doing great things. Since I'm not on facebook I have no idea how MaryAnn is doing--she seemed to mostly stop posting after her last bout of illness that was so dire. I can only hope and pray she is doing alright. I've always enjoyed her posts.