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<\/a>ground cherries. \u00a0The tomatoes and cucumbers are in their last week +. \u00a0The ground cherries seem set to keep on producing through the first heavy frost and the raspberries have only begun to ripen. \u00a0We still have peppers and leeks, a few greens left.<\/p>\nDuring our weekly business meeting we melted more bees wax and this time attempted to fill the mold. \u00a0Only I had not melted enough wax so I had to melt some more. \u00a0That means the molds which didn’t fill ended up with two layers of wax. \u00a0That worked out ok in a couple of cases, not in two others.<\/p>\n
Discovered that the wax has to be washed since the remnant honey, which has a different specific gravity than the wax, gathers and in two cases created a plug of honey between two layers of wax. \u00a0Those two have gone back in the bowl for remelting. \u00a0I have seven beautiful sweet smelling candles and will have a few more, probably made this time in half-pint canning jars for gifts. \u00a0Rendering some more wax as I write this.<\/p>\n
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