This was a great year! We had a mild winter with very few winter losses, with strong health bees. Bee inspector was as impressed as I was going through so many great looking colonies. They required very little feeding, weather cooperated all year with enough rain to keep everything rolling without too much bad weather. Queen rearing was great with plenty of brood, nurse bees, and drones. Got bunches of honey, usually don’t mess with honey but had so much it was a great bonus. Bees had plenty of fall pollen and nectar to pretty much set themselves up for the long winter. Wishing everyone else had the same experience. Looking forward to next season.