Bees, Clay, and Prints

Mid-Summer                                                                              Waning Honey Flow Moon Long day.  Up at 7:00 to get a head start on the bees.  Hive inspections done, then get ready for Northern Clay. At Northern Clay Kate and I tried to make cylinders.  Not as easy as it sounds.  Especially since come of the clay was short.  This means damned hard […]

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To Bee, To Do

Mid-Summer                                                             Waning Honey Flow Moon Out to the bees in just a few minutes to slap on two more honey supers each, the six I finished varnishing yesterday while Mark put foundations in the frames.  This will find six honey supers on colonies 2 & 3, while colony 1, the parent colony for next year’s […]

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