Busy is as busy does!

Lordie have I been busy.  Working at the hospital, in the dahlia patch, with the bees, preparing for the annual MBDS flower show...We did have time to play though at Uncle Pat's wedding to Laura Mahan.  August 23, 2008,  John Patrick Lucchesi married his high school classmate Laura Mahan.  A sweet story.  Laura was sweet on Uncle Pat in high school, but the war came and things changed.  They both married other folks and had great lives.  Both their mates passed and Laura, never forgetting about Pat, found the courage to call him up.  The rest is history.  We wish them hundreds of days of quality time together.  The wedding was simply gorgeous!

Final Product

Thanks to the bees and blooms, 17 jars of honey today!  So pretty!  Tastes delish, with an aftertaste of some kind of flower, I can't quite tell!

You can see I cut our the honeycomb and placed in a big pan, I crushed the comb with a potato masher, really good.  When it looked sufficiently smashed, I strained it into buckets.  I used cheese cloth.  This method takes a bit of time, but I like to watch the honey drip into the buckets!

Extracting Honey, Crush and Strain Method

Yesterday, July 31st, I removed 3 frames of honey from the hives.  I extracted it today.  Here is a frame of that capped honey.  The bees cover the cells of stored nectar with wax = capping.