We ran out of jars. We have 48 13.5 oz hex jars filled, and still 1/3 of what we harvested in the bucket. We estimated 50+ lbs. (We forgot to borrow the hanging scale from work so not 100% sure. It was only 16 frames 😲. More than what I expected for my first time! Took all day.
I knew this! My utmost apologies to Her Royal Worshipfulness Her Majesty the Queen, Aurora, for failing to comply. Hopefully a group picture will suffice in this instance? I can take some twofers later.
Today is honey harvest day. I’m taking a break. First though I got to move my hives down from some too high sawhorses to a stand my boyfriend welded for me. I need to go clean up out there later, but there were so many grumpy bees by the time I robbed and moved their hives I decided to wait. 😬...
Somewhat exciting news. I had two Barnevelders out of the four with very similar patterning that I couldn’t tell apart, except one would hop on me and let me pet her neck and wattles, and one was skittish and would not. Well, after the attack the one remaining wouldn’t come to me, so I thought...