Korey has taken on the love of Honey Bees! Yes, he is one with the bees! Earlier this year, for his birthday to be exact, our friend Paul DeGraff gave Korey for his birthday bee box parts...for he knew he passed his love of bees onto Korey. I guess it was now time for Korey to learn more of the ropes of caring for bees in every way! Well, Korey embraced this gift! They built, he painted and now has filled a box with his very own swarm of bees!
(That is a swarm of bees in that hole in the tree....ewwwwww)
And they are thriving, he says!
While the DeGraff's were on vacation, it was Korey's job to tend to all of the bees! For the first time he was going to pull a tray out (not sure of lingo!) with the honeycomb, and he would get the honey out of the comb....filter it and then bottle the honey!
Now, I know what a mess this can be! For Bro. DeGraff has brought over the honeycomb before for Korey to extract some honey, but it was just a small one....small in size but large in sticky mess! Not to mention that when you melt that honeycomb it causes a BIG MESS! Does not come off cookie sheets very well. Dare I say that it actually ruined it, because I can't use that one any more to make cream puffs on! Any way...back to Korey's story....I will let the pictures tell the story!
Now, I know what a mess this can be! For Bro. DeGraff has brought over the honeycomb before for Korey to extract some honey, but it was just a small one....small in size but large in sticky mess! Not to mention that when you melt that honeycomb it causes a BIG MESS! Does not come off cookie sheets very well. Dare I say that it actually ruined it, because I can't use that one any more to make cream puffs on! Any way...back to Korey's story....I will let the pictures tell the story!
Korey heating the honey to just the right temperature!
Straining it through the first filter....
Now through the second filter....
Jacob helping daddy hold the bottle steady, and having the confidence in his holding it steady to make a funny face!
Jordan and Korey having filled the first bottle of Honey!
All the boys got in on the action of helping Korey bottle the honey!
And....the best part of this story....there were no pots and pans ruined in the making of this honey!
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1 comment:
that honey looks awesome!! what a great thing to do. :-)
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