August and the weather so far seems too be cooling off, and in-line with seasonal. This season our nights have been very cool with blistering hot days.
The above picture is one of my "Italian hives", sometimes with cool night weather the bees will stay put until the sun comes out then they go crazy with hundreds all flying around at once, I see this a lot if we had rain the day before.

So far all seven hives are doing well, I have yet to check on the smaller ones, those I will feed if their numbers or stores are low to get them ready for the coming winter. Hive number one is still displaying signs of chalk brood, the season is too late for raising a new queen though so I will try to get them though the winter. If number one survives I have a few options, one would be pinch the queen and let them raise another, or I could buy a new queen, I could also take a queen from one of my stronger hives and let that hive raise a new queen for themselves. I do not like propagating poor genetics so "number one" making their own queen is out.

So far our forage has been good with the exception of a late spring and an offset clover flow, that offset set back the clover since it didn't have time to flower before most farmers took their first cutting, so we are getting some clover flow now. I should be able to get some harvest this year, this is exiting since it would be my first real harvest since I started beekeeping.