Honey
All in all this has been a pretty weird bee season. Between the swarms, the bear attacks, the drone baby-boom and the lack of reserves; I lamented that no sweetness would be gained from the hard work.
To my good surprise however, the bees finally adjusted to all this and got in a decent amount of honey. It probably helps that they already kicked out all these freeloader males.
Lot of activity but they remained super friendly throughout my extraction of a few frames
I only pulled 6 frames, I want to leave enough food behind for the cold days ahead
The cells are packed!
The frames gotten from the Top Bar Hive are all used, the wax is saved for soap & lip balm making.
Sticky business
While the frams of the Langstroth Hive are spun in an extractor in an effort to save the wax (saving bees the costly work of making more wax if you’re only interested in the honey).
As I said, not a great year but happy to have gotten some loot
Looks great, tastes great
If the public school would stop sending scammy crap through my kid that'd be lovely
Nothing says “fuck you” like the use of the imperative to imply the inability to opt-out.
Whore out your friend & family’s information in exchange for garbage!
Hurray! More plastic for your trash!
Win a playground that’ll make you want to stab your eyes to replace the one the school already has.
Use kids to guilt trip friends & family into buying shit they don’t need to make a company profit; a side-effect of which will be raising pennies on the dollar for the school (but who knows that information is nowhere to be found).
Make sure to read the “Tips for successful selling” so you can be a great sales drone, this is how you do fundraising in la la land.
Grab the deluxe package & teeth whitening from a company in Minnesota, that’s the school picture spirit!
Asking concerned parents to chip in, hiring a local photographer to take pictures of all the kids. Nah.