Winter is coming and with it, beekeeping conventions and meetings.

Me? I'm off to the BCHPA, then the ABA, then the AHPC.  After that,
hopefully, the OBA, the CHC, then the ABF and the AHPA... Wow!

We have fun here on the list -- I've made close life-long friends here on
BEE-L.  We make friends and swap opinions -- and sometimes even facts here
in hyperspace -- but there is no substitute for being there and meeting
face-to-face on the ground.

When you go to these events -- take a hammer to the piggy bank if you
must -- you WILL meet well-known, published scientists, famous -- and
infamous -- bee writers and authors in person, as (very) ordinary people,
face -to-face, and get a chance to talk straight up. They will listen to
you (until two AM).  At these meeting, there is no ivy curtain  There is no
ivory tower.

For North American apis mellifera addicts, probably the major events are
the AHPA and the ABF conventions in January and the International
Conference coming up in Niagara Falls this December.  Of course, there are
also all the state, provincial and local events.  Each and every one is
carefully organised and full of valuable info with amazing speakers.

I'm going to try to be at all I can.  We'll see how I last.  I hope to see
lots of BEE-L people wherever I go, and I always do.

Bee there.

allen

Still very, very sorry for missing EAS...

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