Honey not quite ready yet

The morning started out wet, but with the sun appearing wanted to check on how the ladies had been doing with the honey. Still not quite ready, guess will be another week or two yet.

But the jar labels have arrived so I think I now have everything ready for my first harvest :-)

I've retired to my bees in this mad world!!!

Had a few days off to watch cricket, today was going to be a no cricket day, but so far just been watching mad scenes on the news!

So thought would risk cutting the grass and then inspecting the bees, I'm not about to start cutting the grass in my bee suit to avoid that next sting! I was going ok until I felt some movement by my ear, getting closer to going into my ear, thinking quick i stuck my finger in my ear and retreated to the bathroom to get it out of my hair, sure enough there she was on my ear, that was close, I've had an ant in my ear, but a bee!!! Grass was finished without further event.

Hive inspection went well, think a few weeks from now I will be harvesting my first honey :-), one young lady did manage to sting my right thumb through my marigolds, no will see if I am allergic to bee stings! This time its my right thumb so I will be useless if it swells up like last time!!

So what to do with the rest of the day, the choices are to make a candle out of

this bees wax I have collected or some more work

on that skep I started what must be ages ago!

Bees and rain

We had very heavy rain earlier this evening and just by chance looked out at the bees and saw them behaving very strangely, I always thought bees didn't like flying in the rain but they were everywhere, they didn't look to happy! I know it doesn't look like it in the clip but it was hammering down, so much so that I thought I had ruined my camera, but it did eventually come back to life:-)