.I changed to a white tee grabbed my veil and smoker and headed down to my hives having one last one to reduce boxes in winter prep and inspect all the others. Went to that box and as my father drove the mower close and in front of the hives
. I noticed a whole heck of a lot of bees around me low and high I thought they where coming out of the hives after Dad of course he's veiled up long sleeved and had his gloves on. Myself, not veiled up in just my tee and a cold smoker. It looked like it was about to get real hot real quick, I was about to high tail it. I realized quickly that I wasn't being stung, bumped, buzzed or even looked at
. I was in the middle of a late season swarm coming in and landing in a tree limb about 100 feet away. I know late season swarms don't stand much of a chance of over wintering but what the hey. To make a long story short I captured the swarm in a nuc box. 
Then had enough frames and bees in the hive I was going to reduce to make a good size split cha-ching. Sunday I'll figure out which has a queen and which needs one. So I increased by two hives, 
a good bee day. I was very pleased with my butterfly luck to that point:D but it gets better 
. At 5pm I took my almost five year old to the American Legion/Catawba County fair and guess what? I won 1st place in Light honey and 1st place in Dark honey and place 2nd in Amber Honey almost a clean sweep. A good day for luck?
I should have bought a lottery ticket 
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