The fact that I get to go to work. I love my child, but after a long weekend I am so glad to see her walk into school, meaning I can pick up a latte, go to my office, and actually concentrate on something I love to do. And I get this freedom while knowing she's in a place where she's engaged and happy. Yes! Thank God for good teachers.
Because we had a very quiet Thanksgiving, we got some other tasks completed. We spent all of Friday at the extraction facility, extracting honey. Because it was pretty cold, the honey was running really slowly, so the whole task took longer than usual. We ended up with about 100 pounds of honey. On Saturday, Rob and Emma built a bee-hive shelter, to try to keep the frigid northwest winds from killing the bees over the winter. Emma is hamming it up with the hammer in this picture.
I hope everyone had a great weekend!
You know how to extract honey? That is cool. I would have no idea how to proceed with that task. One hundred pounds of honey sounds luscious!
ReplyDelete100 pounds of honey?!?! What are you going to do with all that golden sweetness?
ReplyDeleteWell, we enjoy it very much ourselves, and then we give lots of it away. There's a diner we go to frequently enough to know the entire staff, so we drop off a box of 1/2 lb bottles there, we donate 20-30 1-lb bottles to our congregation to sell as a fund raiser, and we give it away to friends and family.
ReplyDeleteSend me an address in an email and I'll send you a bottle :-)
Holy honey! How cool that you do that.
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