What am I doing??

I have now started my latest project and I am letting the world take a look at this and maybe someone will learn something or maybe just get a good chuckle. For some reason which I can not explain, I want to raise honey bees. When I tell people this I get all kinds of reactions but so far they are either excited about it or they laugh. Well once they see this blog, hopefully they will learn how to raise bees or learn what not to do (Ha! Ha!). Before I start this, wonder how many times I'll get stung???



To bring everyone up to speed I have zero experience on how to raise honey bees. I have read one "How To" book and recently enrolled in a class that is held at a local Tech. College. This 6 - week course meets once a week. I am currently two weeks into the program. So far I have a little bit of knowledge and a whole lot of questions.



In my last class, 2 nights ago, I discovered that the deadline to order bees was in 2 days if I wanted to get a good price from a local store. Since I would be saving $25 per package I decided to take the plunge and place an order. No backing out now!! I ordered 2 packages since my goal is to have 2 hives to compare to one another. Each hive will eventually be home to 30,000 +/- honey bees. The store is going to place their massive order from a place in Florida. I was wanting to raise Russian bees but it looks like this group is getting Italians. It's my understanding that I can eventually switch in future years if I decide???