Blond bees have more fun?

Photo at left is of my blond queen and her attendants a week after installing them. she walked up to a un-drawn out comb where i was able to get a good photo of her. blond bees dont have black-dark brown points but light brown-red-blond points.


Last week about Wednesday I was expecting my bees in the mail. 2 3# packages with marked queens from Rossman Apiaries in Georgia. I didn't get a call at 2 like I was told by the postal man or in the am if they got in. but I got a call 3 pm. 1 hour before the post office closes. I'm panicking since mom had taken the car to go to work and everyone I called was busy. Finaly got ahold of one friend with a relative that lives close by that agreed to go pick them up. well my friend later picks me up to go with her to get the bees. we get into town. (the town is a super small town. think of the Andy Griffith show. how small that town was. and everyone knows what you are doing.) well we get there and we stop at the local corner store to get milk for her. My friend starts laughing as she gets into the car. she said the store Clerc told me that my aunt was in here and got the bees from the post office but the thing is.. she got to the post office thinking she was picking up BEADS! not BEES lol.I thought that was too funny. but all came out well in the end.
get the bees home and put them on the porch. then I go in and get ready. I already moved the hives to the other side off the pond with the tractor and got the brood supers set up with a top hive feeder. I go back in the house get the sugar syrup ready.. get all gussied up in my bee suit get my boots on . get all set up grab the bees and the sugar and the hive tools I needed and went to work. it was actually very easy to do.took the board off the top .. taped the box to settle the bees on the bottom and got the can of sugar syrup out and the queen. got the can back in. set the queen up. with includes taking the cork out off one end where the candy is. and poking a hole in it to make it easier for the bees to get to her. then took the can out. taped the bees again. got them poured into the hive . sprinkled them with the sugar stuff from the can. put the top feeder on. and then the telescoping cover.I did the same thing for the other hive with the exception of the queen. that queen cages metal tab came off so instead of using the tag to hold her up. I had to wedge her in there the old fashioned way. It came out OK. so far the 2 times I walked by I saw lots of activities coming out of both hives. Wednesday which is tomorrow i will go in and check on the hive search for the queen. and add a pattie "bee pro patties". a all purpose bee food. this is all to get them well started being that they are a new hive with no stores of honey and other stuff that they need. and I want them to build up their frames and make brood instead of having to hunt for food at this time.. I'm not exactly the best at telling howI do things or how to do things but so far so good.
another thing about bees. when i went over to the hive to start them up. It is amazing how calm I became. sort of like a zen state. and I suspect the bees can tell when your angry. and when your calm they will act accordingly.