More beehives

Last year we started a bee colony in a top bar hive and were able to harvest honey their first year, and they still have an excess of honey this spring. This encouraged us to get more hives, and we built them (thanks to Zachary and Steven Knight's help and the use of Bryan Carlon's shop)

Zachary is a bit taller than the hive is long.

Plexiglass windows took several attempts to cut and install. I knew it would be a challenge when I asked for cutting advice from the Home Depot employee and he said he had never done it successfully. 

Back in my garage, I finished building the lids by adding the tin. Quinton and I also built the stands here.

I rolled the hives to the back of the yard. Zachary and Payge are in the background setting up the stands.

Approximate final location of the hives. They arent leveled yet in this picture, though at writing, two of three are leveled. In the upper left the original hive sits. I should probably turn it so it faces East with the rest of them so I'm not in the flight path of that hive when working on the other hives.