Bees back in town

 Daddy is back at the bees!  Let's hope for the best!

Lee's Bees are Busy!

Bees are busy!

Hoping for a great year with some yummy honey!!

Extracting Honey

What a procedure!  It is done!

First... super exciting that we actually got enough honey to extract some this year!!  Bob's dream come true!!  Bob decided we didn't have enough though to rent a real extractor... so... we did it by hand.  What a sticky, long, multi-person task!!  It is done, we got lots of honey and already have people who want to buy some!  Feels good that people actually want the honey we helped the bees procure!

Look at all that honey... 

this frame weighed at least 5 or 6 pounds... full!!

Step 1... we hair dried the frame to melt the wax and allow the honey to come to the surface
Step 2... scraping down the honey off the frame into a big sanitized tub.
Step 3... repeat, repeat, repeat!!

Step 4... we had to strain out the wax... way to sticky a mess for Bob or I to take pictures of that step
Step 5... all hands on board, no pictures to be taken... boo... funneling wax into each of our bottles with our logo!  Wahoo!
Step 6... tada!

YUMMY!

  

I don't love honey, but I took a few 'honey shots' straight into the mouth from our personal bottle and it was super sweet!!  Pretty neat this product was created literally in our own backyard... lots of tender loving care was put into the bees... so thank you bees for returning the favor...

Bee Update

Today our expert Bee Keeper came to check-up on us and to see how our second hive was doing!  Our second hive is doing great!  The bees themselves created themselves a queen and she is laying babies like crazy!  Score!!  Our first hive will also be providing us human edible honey this year!  Wahoo!!

 Something good to look at!

 Look at all those girls!

Keep it up ladies!