Animals
- Hay Here, Hay There, Hay Everywhere!
If you have read my blog for a while,then you will know that what I am about to tell you I say with great jubilation!We have hay.Dry hay.Hay that will be baled by the end of the day.The end of worries about animal feed for winter.Hay. I cannot tell you...
- Honey Harvest
This past weekend, Andy and Lindsey came home from Charlotte for a visit. Neither of them had ever had an opportunity to wear bee suits and see the inside of a hive. So we decided to suit up and pull off the supers that were going to be used for our honey...
- Baby, Its Hot Outside!
I have come to notice that the bees act as a thermometer. A few weeks ago, I published a picture of how they hang outside their hive on a hot day, cooling themselves. What I have come to notice is that the hotter it is outside, the more bees are on the...
- Honey Harvest...the Process
Mike and Bev....ready to go to work on the hives. The proper attire is a must for this job. Thanks to these great suits we handled several hives (and hundreds of thousands of bees) with no stings! Mike getting ready to "smoke" the bees. The smoke has...
- Honey Harvest Time Is Here
Honey harvest time has finally arrived at Bee Haven Acres. This year's unusual weather patterns have caused a bit of a honey shortage, but a couple of our hives are ready to have their extra honey extracted. Check back after the weekend for pictures...
Animals
One Honey of a Day
Please excuse the brevity of this post.
I am writing this Thursday night after 10:00 PM.
I have just finished filling every jar that I saved over the past year
with the most delicious honey we have ever harvested.
For four hours we cut the caps off of the honey comb...
spun the frames in the centrifuge...
then filtered...
and finally bottled about 7 gallons of honey.
And that was just one hive's honey.
Amazing!!
What a summer it has been...
each and every harvest has been plentiful.
Besides harvesting honey, I also mowed our largest pasture,
and did a woodworking project... as well as the normal farm chores.
Needless to say I am tired.
So, I will leave you with this little question...
Who do you suppose bit a hole in the end of Chloe's fly mask?
All I can say is... Daphne's not talking!
Hope you have a wonderful weekend.
We are spending ours with friends for a brief getaway
to the Chesapeake Bay.
The farm will be well tended by family and friends in our absence.
Our animals won't even miss us.
They'll have a weekend with lots of lovin'!
PS: It's 10:40 PM and I have just crawled into bed...
Hubbs lets Sammy into the house.
What's that awful smell?
Oh, NO.....Sammy.....skunk.
No bedtime here...nope....time to give Sam a de-skunk bath.
That Sam........
PS: It's 10:40 PM and I have just crawled into bed...
Hubbs lets Sammy into the house.
What's that awful smell?
Oh, NO.....Sammy.....skunk.
No bedtime here...nope....time to give Sam a de-skunk bath.
That Sam........
- Hay Here, Hay There, Hay Everywhere!
If you have read my blog for a while,then you will know that what I am about to tell you I say with great jubilation!We have hay.Dry hay.Hay that will be baled by the end of the day.The end of worries about animal feed for winter.Hay. I cannot tell you...
- Honey Harvest
This past weekend, Andy and Lindsey came home from Charlotte for a visit. Neither of them had ever had an opportunity to wear bee suits and see the inside of a hive. So we decided to suit up and pull off the supers that were going to be used for our honey...
- Baby, Its Hot Outside!
I have come to notice that the bees act as a thermometer. A few weeks ago, I published a picture of how they hang outside their hive on a hot day, cooling themselves. What I have come to notice is that the hotter it is outside, the more bees are on the...
- Honey Harvest...the Process
Mike and Bev....ready to go to work on the hives. The proper attire is a must for this job. Thanks to these great suits we handled several hives (and hundreds of thousands of bees) with no stings! Mike getting ready to "smoke" the bees. The smoke has...
- Honey Harvest Time Is Here
Honey harvest time has finally arrived at Bee Haven Acres. This year's unusual weather patterns have caused a bit of a honey shortage, but a couple of our hives are ready to have their extra honey extracted. Check back after the weekend for pictures...