We did get 10 quart jars of honey. And sore shoulders from cranking the handle on the extractor. Hubby is thinking he might be able to hook up his drill to the spindle. That would be a HUGE improvement.
What a day. We extracted the honey. It took about 4 hours, start to finish, plus a one-hour intermission. Hubby went out to play frisbee with Freya.
And she ran off. It took an hour for her to come back. My throat hurts from yelling. I have a huge deer fly bite on my shoulder. Freya ate...
$15 for a quart is a decent price. Not sure what Ed charges per quart; he charges $48/gallon. I give him $50, as he has been VERY helpful to us with our endeavor.
I'd say bees are less work than chickens. The initial outlay of money might be about the same.
Bees are humbling. Bees gonna do...
One thing I will be using more of is honey. Yep, we FINALLY got some from our bees.
Extracting will be a new adventure for us. :lol: We've had 2 or 3 presentations at the bee club about extracting, so we have a vague idea of how it goes. I helped Ed, my bee guy, when he gathered honey supers...
I made homemade vanilla once. Yes, it was fantastic! I don't bake enough to use that much, so after it was gone, I just bought an expensive bottle of extract and said good enough for who it's for.
We just had one of those "brief heavy downpours." I think it lasted about 10-15 minutes, but we might have gotten half an inch.
I'll take it. I don't think we've had an inch of rain, total, yet this month.
We are very discouraged with our bee hives right now. One of them swarmed today. Not likely I can lure it back.
But as I told hubby, we are not in the hospital after our car accident, and neither of us died yesterday.
This too shall pass.
"Only" a high of 87 today. I have to spend some time weeding. A lot of weeds weren't fazed by the heat, and they LOVED the rain.
A lot of tomatoes out there! Small, green, and gobs of them.
I dug one garlic plant. I'll be doing that whenever we need any now. SO nice to have fresh garlic again!