The Quack Shack

[Miss Lydia]

I can't believe its Friday again! - Where has this week been hiding?
On Labour Day, i was busy with the bees - Finally i had a chance to open the hive only to find the top honey-box completely empty and just 2½ frames of honey in the second one. Not enough to use the centrifuge, so i went with the old, manual method of scraping the frames with a spoon - here's the result:

Then using a kitchen sieve and a funnel to filter out the honey:

The final result, five jars of dark honey:

Plus another ½ jar after squeezing out whatever possible from the wax.obey

Very pretty I love honey

 

[Canadian Wind]

Nice! Trade you some honey for maple syrup?

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

One of the reasons this week has somehow disappeared is the is the last duckling i've found on Monday. It is heavily traumatized! For the first two days it required direct contact all the time. I couldn't even set it down in front of me or it would start to cry immediately. Must have been a terrible experience for the little one to see momma duck walking away, leaving it behind cold and lonely. Fortunately Monday was a sweltering hot day here and i wasn't too late with collecting the eggs…

Ducky is trying to sleep in the weirdest postures i have ever seen:

Can this be comfortable?!

I undestand sleeping on the keyboard of my Laptop:

That thing is venting the hot air out through the keyboard, so it is comfy warm from below.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Very pretty I love honey

Me too, but just 5½ jars from a large hive is somewhat of a disappointment...

 

[Miss Lydia]

Sorry about that but 5 jars is still better than none
Maybe next year.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Nice! Trade you some honey for maple syrup?

I would if i had more… 2 jars are promised to my partner in DC, one is promised to a friend, that leaves me with just 2½ jars. It was a baaad year for honey here. All of the neighbors are telling me that the Tulip trees refused to flower this year. They don't bear flowers every year anyways, but it seems somehow all of them have synchronized this year.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

Sorry about that but 5 jars is still better than none
Maybe next year.

I hope the tulip tree will have flowers next year. The Autumn Olive shrubs are not a replacement.

 

[Luv Ducks]

I can't believe its Friday again! - Where has this week been hiding?
On Labour Day, i was busy with the bees - Finally i had a chance to open the hive only to find the top honey-box completely empty and just 2½ frames of honey in the second one. Not enough to use the centrifuge, so i went with the old, manual method of scraping the frames with a spoon - here's the result:

Then using a kitchen sieve and a funnel to filter out the honey:

The final result, five jars of dark honey:

Plus another ½ jar after squeezing out whatever possible from the wax.

Wow Frank, that was neat. I even saw a couple of the bees joining you while you were doing it.

 

[Luv Ducks]

Very pretty I love honey

Me too and they say it is good for us.

 

[WannaBeHillBilly]

More pictures from "Ducky"; it likes to type on my keyboard:

It inspected the new bed for the ducknagers on the front patio:

It still doesn't like to eat tomatoes of duck-starter crumbles:

But it eats soaked meal-worms: