Here Old Ma nature should be commited to a padded cell. 10 days over 70F in March 6 of which were at 80F or above. Every thing started blooming early including the bees but you can't do any thing with them cause there are no drones to mate the new queens with.
April arrives with more crazy weather nights well below freezing days in the 50 to 60F range and nary a drop of rain. Got to 22 F April 30th so any thing in bloom got killed Many of the trees are looseing their leaves from getting froze so bad.
finall May arrives with sort of normal weather except we are getting all the rain we didn't and should have in April. Try to split the colonies and make nucs and it weather allows a short warm spell so you can open the hive up, then it rains so the next day you twitling you thumbs waiting for it to dry out. another day your ready to go to work and there is a swarm some one calls about so you go collect them. Record setting 9.8 inches in 4 hours Rain again so getting to one of the yards is an adventure in mud bogging. First swarm was April 19th last one of 9 so far is May 13th.

I heat with wood too only mine comes from the woods out back. cut down all the dead Ash ya need for a whole winter in January. cut it up in manageable chunks then too. As time allows drag the splitter back ther and split a trailer load at a time. A weeks worth of wood comes in the furnace room at a time. Ashes are spread in the gardens unless a ice storm calls for there traction help.

Al