LOL you guys, some funny stuff!!! and i needed a good laugh this evening!..........
i think winter bee fever has set in for us all?............
scott, maybe a BIGGER wand?.......
jack, no paper here with check marks on it.....you can flip flop anytime like a mackerel on the deck of a boat......
besides perry forgets about the one or two times you did agree with him......
and perry.......too funny!!!
hmmm, buddy, pain, or cursed?.........
nah, just needed some more 'whiners'..............
it's snowing here too, and it was a real HOT 10 degrees if that today.
sorry i sidetracked the thread, but it sure is fun sometimes. i have been looking for pix of the last great honey harvest i had a few years back. 17 or 18 5 gallon pails and they were all full. haven't had that good of harvest since all the rain, flooding, droughts and fickle weather started. at the time i had 7 hives, and 30 supers. i only harvest once in a season, in the fall. 2 supers fill a five gallon pail (8 frame supers), weigh approximately 50-60 lbs give or take, so i harvested somewhere between 850 to 1080 pounds of honey, and the hives all made it to the next spring. i started to worry towards the end of july, i was running out of supers. all 30 supers had drawn comb in them, and they were all on. i thought i was going to have to buy new boxes, assemble and put foundation in, not a bad thing, except i took a vacation and went fishing at the most inopportune time........
as it turned out, it was alright, i did have a number of inner covers with honey filled comb all over underneath......
the fall flow started early and was in full glory. i took the supers off, all 30, and the bees filled out the deeps, and i didn't have to feed any of them that year. the pix i have are before i had a digital camera, but the supers of all different colors stacked up in the back of the truck sure looked cool, AND the buckets stacked up after extraction. it took me 2 summers to harvest all the wax in a solar melter, using that solar melter, every day, non stop.
haven't had a season like it since, maybe again someday!
