First peek

April 25, 2004

We took our first peek to see how the girls are settling in and everything looked just fine. As you can see in the first picture below, there was a bit of burr comb built up next to the frames, but we peeled that off. They had also built up some burr comb around the queen’s chamber, which I thought was cool. I’m going to hold onto that as a “piece of art”, I think.

Otherwise, all as you would expect. They’ve started to draw the frames but haven’t made that much headway (just a couple weeks since they were introduced, after all).

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