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It's been 3 years since I decided to "give up" drinking. Drinking was so terribly difficult on my mind, relationships, and body.

In these three years I've been successful at work, making good decisions and more money. I've strengthened my relationship with my wife who loves me and takes care of me in a thousand ways. But most importantly I've been sober, available, and kind to my children who are young, observant, and smart.

Quitting involved medical help and rehab, and it came at a very inconvenient time in my working life. I was spiraling, and suffering, and was living daily and drinking excessively daily just to avoid being sick with shakes and anxiety attacks regularly.

Well, I don't drink.

So, it was a big event with 50 people. I took diet coke, ginger ale, root beers, and lacroix waters. Altogether I took about 15 sodas / seltzers.

I "drank" all night, constantly had a beverage in my hand, and not a drop of alcohol! It was so fun!

And, on top of that, my children's PRINCIPAL showed up half way through the party, and I spoke with him for 1/2 hour and it was so nice to get to know him. Sober. Respectable. Kind. Funny. Welcomed. Not annoying. Not drunk. Not inappropriate.

What a good night. The next morning I woke up without one single regret, and it was an excellent Sunday!

A tooter!

Well I made it a thousand days, and I'm so glad for all the help that I've got from this forum. Thanks to all of you! Life is greatly improved. Quitting drinking was the best decision I have made for myself in years. I will not drink with you today!

Today I've been sober for one year. I never thought it would be possible. When I was drinking, I was trapped, drinking heavily every day, and so stressed out, with anxiety attacks daily. There was a feeling of gloom and impending doom as well, every day. I was afraid.

I got medical help, spent some time in rehab, and read "This Naked Mind" about 10 times, and convinced myself that I would never drink again.

Once I made that choice, things were a lot easier. I'm not afraid any more, and I don't have anxiety attacks, and I can get things done at work with ease.

Things are still really stressful and I have a lot of responsibility, but I handle it and do my very best, and it's

I have a deep freezer and I'm cycling my combs left over from last year through the freezer but there are wax moths in my garage flying around and they are getting in my supers and hive bodies. Is there a treatment XenTari DF Biological Insecticide that will work for me to spray on the combs? I've been searching online trying to find the best spray, but I'm confused and there are conflicting options. There are even moth balls or moth crystals for sale that say they will do the job. Help!

I was mowing the bee yard tonight with my 14 hives, and I acidentally pushed a weed into the front of a hive with bees out front, and they got mad and I got stung 5 times! They were mad!

I came in and put lavender oil on them and all is well. When I get stung now it's like a mosquito bite, because I've been stung many times.

Lavender oil (my wife has some essential oils and lavender is one of them) really helps with the swelling and the pain. Now they are just tiny bumps. Hooray! Go bees!

I switched from a samsung galaxy S7 to this google pixel phone and the voice recognitition is terrible. On the S7 it would correct for grammar errors, and context errors, and was fantastic.

This pixel has no context correction and is not intuitive at all and makes loads of mistakes. What is going on? How can I make it work really well? The phone is brand new, (one week old) but the voice to text is making me seriously consider going back to the Galaxy S7.

Last year, I did not treat for mites, and I lost a bunch of hives during the rough winter.

This winter was wet, and muddy, but no huge freezes, and I treated once with Oxalic acid on the first day of December.

Last year, I had many empty hives in the spring (14 or so due to a HUGE freeze at 0F with 18 mph winds for three days. Many of my colonies died, even though they were insulated) and the hives that died out all got wax moth infestations in March / April before I could pull them into the barn and freeze them in the freezer to kill the moths. Two of the hives were destroyed and I had to put new foundation in every frame.

This winter season has been warm, and fine, but no wax moth

We're in Virginia and it's September 20th. I harvest on this date every year, but it's been the wettest summer by 300% raining almost every other day. Also, it's been a cool summer.

I got into the hives today to harvest, expecting 600-1,000 lbs, but what I found was a lot of uncapped honey, a LOT of brood, and 3 supers that were full and able to be harvested.

I'm wondering if the rainy summer and late onset of winter means that I should wait a month to harvest honey, or longer.

I inspected my 20 hives, and in one of the hives, there were about a dozen brood that seemed to have turned on their side at day 6 and died. The hive is generally not doing great, but those weird brood have me concerned. They were not dark, they were white, and I jabbed them and they were not stringy pulling like AFB, but should I just keep going forward or should I treat for European Foul Brood just in case?

Had a bad winter here in VA and I lost 13 hives to the cold. I collected the hives and they were packed with honey. I probably have 10 supers FULL of honey.

I planned to use it to get things started with nucs and splits this spring, and I used a little of it, but I've got a LOT.

It all crystallized.

How can I melt the honey back to non-crystallized without damaging the comb? I'd like to extract the honey and use it.

I've been at this for almost 10 years now, and this is the first time I've had this situation.

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