Last wednesday, I had a "honey professional" come out an look at my hive to tell me how many frames I could take out of it. Ordinarially, you have to leave some honey in the hive for the bees to get through the winter. But since we live in a year-round warm place, and my hive is a strong hive, I was able to take alot more honey. In all I got 19 frames (which are the things I am holding in the picture above.)
So on Saturday, we took the frames to a place in Anaheim where a local Beekeeping Club (of which I am not a member) keeps their spinner. We spun the honey out of the frames and got somewhere between 4-6 gallons total. I havn't put it in jars yet so I am not exactly sure. While spinning, the smell of the honey attracted thousands of bees. We were pretty much entirely surrounded. I never got stung, but Julie got stung 2x. The head of the Beekeping Club said the honey had a spice taste to it. He said it had some eucalyptus and acacia in it. It is really yummy!
Being used to bees swarming all around me, the next day I had to put the empty frames back on the hive. I was stupid and did not use my bee suit and I ran out of smoke in a very important time. My bees were very pissed and attacked me. I had to jump in the pool in order to get them away from me and got stung 10 times. This rouined my day because I had a party to prepare for. I had 40 people comming for my halloween party in 4 hours. Luckily Dan helped out alot and we pulled it off. After the party I went to bed at 10:30 and slept very well from taking too much Benadryl.
3 comments:
Can't wait until I receive my honey in the mail! :)
As your legal counsel I must advise you that bees don't smoke! What a great project you have there! And we totally envy your progress with you your sustainable lifestyle. I am just thinking of all the great things you can trade for with the extra Kleiney brand honey! Cheers
Lisa, your bee/honey experience sounds hilarious. 10 times stung and had to jump in the pool - love it. Look at you go with all this natural lifestyle...how's your chickens doing? By the way, I love yours and Dans Halloween costumes.
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