Author: pkartch

Water for the bees and installing a queen excluder

It took forever to warm up and now it’s 100′ The bees are getting hot.

We went to the big hive to set up a watering system for them.

The horses always come over to say hello.

Eli called himself farmer Eli.

For the water jar, Paul poked holes in a mason jar lid.

This is boardman feeder. The jar is placed upside down in the feeder.

When the jar is filled with water and tipped upside down, water doesn’t come out. The bees walk up through the feeder and drinks from the jar.

Paul also put in a queen excluder. This screen keeps the queen bee down below and allows all the other bees to move up to the upper boxes.

Why?? To keep the brood out of the honey we collect.

The first two boxes will be brood and honey for the bees to eat. Above the queen excluder will be honey for us.

The queen excluder on top of box two.

Paul slid in the feeder so the bees can access the water from inside the hive.

Pretty cute!

Before we left, we had to feed the horses their treats.

He is so cute!

Love you little pea!

Little hive queen bee and worker bees full of pollen

The little hive is looking pretty good.

This is where the queen bee came out.

There she is. The queen bee. Paul successfully raised a queen for this hive.

You can tell the difference between the queen and the worker bees because of her size and stripes. She is longer than the other bees and doesn’t have stripes.

That bee made me laugh. She was busy doing something in that cell.

See the bee with the giant yellow pouches on her legs? That is pollen.

So far so good. The hive has a queen and they are making honey. This is becoming a cute little hive.

Breakfast is back

Started out the day with a 6 mile run. I need to make room for some calories. It’s Monday so that means lunch and a treat.

Today we are pretty excited for lunch. The prison brought back breakfast! We haven’t been here for several months due to not having breakfast.

I know it’s crazy, but we like coming here. The food is good and reasonably priced….ok, it’s cheap. 🙂 But it’s really good.

See how thick those pancakes are?

Aaron is so tired of my pictures. I don’t care. One day he will thank me for documenting all our trips to the prison for lunch.

Mmm….

We can’t forget about tater tots and fry sauce.

Eli loved them.

After lunch we went to Pleasant Grove and stopped in at Sweetopia to pick up a little dessert.

They were good, but nothing special.

Another fun Monday lunch with Aaron and Mormor!