Buckets and Jars

This can only mean one thing:

Honey time! I spent hours in the basement bathroom with the heat cranked on high (to keep the honey flowing) filtering and bottling honey.

I got 230 pounds from Bill and there's still more to go! That's 250 total so far if you include the comb honey. 

Lots and lots of jars to clean, label, and put ribbons on. Amazingly enough, all of the quarts and pints were sold (or already pre-ordered) within a week! I still have a bunch of half and quarter pint jars that are good for gifts or samples.

Oy! The cleanup is almost done but I'll have to do it again later this month for batch #2. That'll be a lot smaller though: only a couple of supers.

Meanwhile, the bees are getting ready to hunker down for the winter: kicking out the drones and topping off food stores. There's still lots of honey left for them!