Honey Harvest

A friend of my dad's recently started keeping bees for honey. He has two hives, and yesterday we were able to watch him harvest honey. It was very interesting and fun!

Wes looks on

Our host shows us the lid from the first hive

Luke and Tag were safe and sound in their bee suits!

Pulling out the honeycombs. In the background, you can see Wes headed to a fun spot in their backyard...

...the pond! We were supposed to wear long sleeves and pants, and Wes must have gotten too hot. He took a dip to cool off.

You can't see all the bees flying around in these pictures, but there were a lot of them. This hive housed about 30,000.

Tag was fearless

In the garage, they scraped the layer of wax off the honeycomb in preparation to extract the honey.

Four honeycombs per spinning session

They let the boys help spin out the honey

Mmm...honey. It pours out and is filtered into a bucket. From 11 honeycombs, they extracted about 2 1/2 gallons of honey!

Guess Who Came to Dinner

The title of my previous post suits this one too. Last night we had the wonderful opportunity of spending an evening with Elders Bednar and Snow.  Who? click here or here.

Wes was quite taken with these two, and vice-versa. He was all smiles when picture time came.

Learning how to do "knucks".

After Tag's invitation, "Do you want to sit here in this chair?"

One last practice before they left.

Tag wins for best quote of the night: "Don't let the 'postles' eat before I wash my hands!"

Lucky Us

We got to spend a fun-filled Memorial Day weekend in NC with some of our favorite people. We enjoyed beautiful weather swimming at a friend's pool, wading in the creek, and blowing lots of bubbles.

Lookin' good, Melyn!

Tag sporting his favorite look for the season: no pants.