New from Piedmont NC

[Thymaridas]

I have been beekeeping for quite a while. I got started when an 80 year old church member, John, who I had helped in his bee yard decided he was too old to continue. So he gave me his bees and equipment and I have enjoyed it ever since.

I am particularly proud of my smoker. It was John's fathers before him and has been in continuous operation for nearly a hundred years. So far the only maintenance required has been to replace the leather of the bellows, but I put beeswax/linseed mixture on it every year to keep the leather soft.

[beerman]

Welcome I am new here also and new to beekeeping, got all my stuff today bought a lot of stuff on CL.
I can't wait.
Nice to meet you.
Brian

[Thymaridas]

Well Brian, glad that you have become a beekeeper. It is loads of fun. Enjoy your bees and watch them.

I love to pull a chair up in the bee yard and just watch them come and go. I like to watch them fly in and out and try to see where they are going to and coming from.

Mason bees are fun too.

[cblewis]

Hey,

Where in the piedmont are you located?  I'm up in Wilkes County, about an hour away from Winston.

Cool story about your bees and equipment.

Chuck

[Thymaridas]

I am in Statesville.

[AllenF]

I'd like to see a pic of that old smoker in use.

[Thymaridas]

Sorry to say that I don't so pictures. Technology and I barely get along. My camera, which I don't know where is, is a manual Pentax from the 70's.

Adam