Beekeeping class

It's snowing now at 9 PM, May 8. Seven hours ago I hosted a "Bee Yard Etiquette" class during a high wind advisory. 5 attended and we broke my first two rules of Bee Yard Etiquette:

1. Don't open a hive when it's cold.

2. Don't open a hive when it's windy.

We broke rule 3 after about twenty minutes:

3. Don't open a hive in the rain.

The first hive was a drone layer.

The second hive was a double nuc—it survived the winter with only 8 frames. I wanted to check the condition but the frames were pretty tight and then it started to rain.

I shortened the class.

The power was gone when we returned home.