December 2014 / January 2015: This has been a pretty stressful Christmas season and I'm glad it is behind us. Jane went to the hospital on December 17th with severe stomach/bowel pain. She was diagnosed have acute appendicitis and ended up have her appendix taken out that same evening.
Five days later we were taking Jane back to the hospital and this time she wouldn't be leaving for 23 days.
She ended up having to have a bowel re-section and is in the process of a slow and painful recovery. She had many of her good friends visit her during her hospital stay, which I'm sure made it much more bearable. Janet and I finally got to celebrate her Christmas on January 15th after getting her home on the 14th. But things seem to be slowly progressing in the right direction.
The weather turned very nice this past Saturday and it was nice to know that my hive is alive. It got sunny and in the fifty's so the new bees emerged for a pre-spring test flight.