I finally made it home before dark and it was over 60. Beautiful sunny and low wind. So I took the girls top off! It’s been a minute since I saw that many little Bs, and I’m not talking tractors.
the girls have been hitting the candy board we made in the fall pretty hard so we gave them some more sugar and a protein patty just in case. Seemed like they had good numbers but I did not keep the lid off long and just let them BEE. 
anyway we have signs of life mid February.
after I put the girls top back on, Then I collected sap from our buckets. (28 gallons since Saturday, so starting to thinking about a boil and bourbon this weekend will if weather allows?! )
