Weather was warm, snow was melting, and the 2020-21 ski season was slipping away. But, there were no crowds, most trails were still open, and the kids enjoyed some slope-side pizza.
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| Looks delicious. Tough day to be gluten free. |
During the past few days, we learned a lot about bees and honey.
One of RJ's classmates was staying in a house that had a beehive. The bee-man inspected the hive and said that the queen was gone and there was 50 lbs of honey left in the hive. So, it was time to harvest.
Sara was in the right place at the right time and got 5 trays of honeycomb.
After scraping off the bees wax and setting up cookie cooling racks, we had a full night of excitement watching honey drip on a cookie sheet.
The honey had some impurities in it, so the next step involved pouring the honey through a strainer. This was a process that happened overnight.
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| Step 2: pour honey into strainer |
The next day, Sara poured the honey into storage jars.
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| Step 3: pour into containers |
After all was said and done, we got 2 big jars and 1 small jar of honey.
For our bedtime story, we read the Berenstain Bears "The Big Honey Hunt." After researching the costs, hassles, potential problems, and complexities of housing bees, we came to the same conclusion has Papa ... the best type of honey comes from a store.
Our garage door started squeaking. The noise was coming from the 20 foot track with the rotating inside that lifts the door. While at Home Depot, RJ suggested purchasing some WD-40 to lube the track. Doug said "Naw, RJ. You gotta get something with higher viscosity."
The next day Doug put some axel grease on the mechanism. The squeaking got much worse at precisely the spot where the grease was applied.
In a desparate move, Doug retrieved some WD-40 from the basement and sprayed down the track. No more noise. Humph, the kid was right.
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| Whaddya get for number 5? |
