Bees as in honey bees and bumble bees? Or jellow jackets and wasps? Look up all four on google images if you aren't sure what comes around. I suggest this because people tend to use the words interchangeably. If it is the latter two you should put out traps in the spring when it starts to warm up to catch queens who are looking for a place to establish a hive. You eliminate the queen early it prevents hives. You can also fll cracks in the parts of your house if they infiltrate into eaves or siding gaps. Fill any holes in the ground from moles and chipmunks as they will make nests there. If a hive appears high up on your home get a spray nozzle with a spot for soap (like for cleaning cars) that attaches to a hose and fill the reservoir with dish soap and spray everything down at night when they are all inside as soapy water absolutely destroys them. For ground hives, go out at night, place a light near but not over the hole as guard wasps may come out, pour liquid dish soap down the hole and then put a hose down as well, the soapy water will kill everything--may take a few nights to get them all.

As for bees, you can't really stop a swarm. If anyone has bee hives near you they should be managing their hive populations well enough to prevent swarms but even then bees may split off and try to find new places. If a BEE swarm is nearby look for bee groups online as they will happily come get free bee for themselves. We need bees and when in a swarm they have no hive to protect and are pretty harmless. They will usually fly off eventually.

Kind of a similar situation as me. Two incomes, bought a house 12 years ago for 225k. We’ve put in about 40k worth of improvements. House is now worth about 350 with the recent increases in value which we find pretty shocking as it isn’t the biggest. We now have two little kids and had planned to move in summer 2020 to a bigger place but with the pandemic we got stuck here. Thankfully our place had been paid off since 2018 and the idea of having a huge mortgage is a major turn off so we are waiting to see how things play out over the next few years.

The part between the off ramp towards Bristol and Queen street is such a pain because there is no turn round middle lane or any way to get off so if you are in that section when something is ahead you are boned. I'll never forget getting out of work early due to snowy weather one year, driving by tons of cars that had slid off the road, seeing people driving too fast who slide off the road, got 15 minutes from home only to see someone try to speed by a car further up to get ahead, slid into said car, causing a four car pileup that blocked the road and took 2 hours to clear.

Love seeing that the traffic on the opposite lane is backed up due to looky--loos slowing down to see what is up.

I like going to outdoor places that have easy hiking: Hubbard Park or Sleeping Giant for example. I like checking out all kinds of thrift and antique stores. Factory Square in Southington has a ton of stuff to do there: Gamecraft Arcade, Escape Room. Axe Throwing, Perkatory Coffee, and Smokin with Chri, a good BBQ place, is right next door.

Third party suppliers give you all the info you need up front: fixed or variable rate and whether or not there is a fee for canceling or changing the supplier before the contract is done. For example I am using a company based out of AZ I have a three year contract with for 7.9c per kwh that ends in October of next year. At that point I'd pay whatever fee they currently charge unless I switch to a different supplier. I face no fees if I change suppliers before then. The big thing I'd say look out for are places with really low fees but short contract times such as 6 months because it is easy to forget to change your supplier. I tend to set phone reminders the month before my contract ends so I can look for the next best deal if my current supplier rate is set to spike after the contract ends. I imagine some places are so much lower is based on where they are located and how they generate or supplement generation of electricity. Like my company is in AZ so maybe it makes sense for them to sell electricity to a heavily populated state like ours where people desperately want cheaper per kwh rates.

I have used third party providers exclusively since CT has allowed them and have never been hit with any hidden fees or surprises since I read all conditions in each contract before signing on.

Red White and Blue in Waterbury. I try to be money and resource conscious and get tons of clothes there for myself for work (teaching) and for my kids. My husband has gotten really nice jackets there for himself. Just know it is cash only.