Beekeeping

[BackRoad]

It's the tension of time...

In the normal workforce, anyone driven to provide the best quality work they're able to produce is typically working under tension with time.

For me, the time allowed to produce a new solution, write a contract, restore service, complete an implementation...whatever, was constantly decreasing over my 40 year IT career - it was a constant expectation to provide ever greater results in a shorter duration of time...and I accepted the tension of time knowingly.

Now retired, there's still a drive to provide the best quality work one can possibly do...but you now control the acceptable time to completion.

The pure satisfaction of doing something right, and seeing the results sky rockets, whether it's digging a ditch, mowing a field or building a beehive.

It's because you can now be in the moment, doing what you want to do, on your time schedule, at the quality level you decide. It's the best of times, because the oppressive tension of time has been eliminated.

Sorry for going philosophical...

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Well said!!

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Processed 12 more sheets of plywood this weekend, so the shelves are stocked with parts. Still have about 6 hours of cutting dimensional lumber, then assembly. This should fill all current orders and leave 5 new hives in stock for later. Time to hunker down in the shop for winter soon.

We will be pulling the last of the honey today, and closing up the hives tomorrow, for winter. That basically consists of a thick wool pillow over the brood nest.

 

[ponytug]

Processed 12 more sheets of plywood this weekend, so the shelves are stocked with parts. Still have about 6 hours of cutting dimensional lumber, then assembly. This should fill all current orders and leave 5 new hives in stock for later. Time to hunker down in the shop for winter soon.

We will be pulling the last of the honey today, and closing up the hives tomorrow, for winter. That basically consists of a thick wool pillow over the brood nest.

I'm envious of your productivity! Do you have photos of the wool pillows?

All the best,

Peter

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Parts and pillows.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Collected another 30 pounds of honey today. Got three hives closed up, three more to go tomorrow. Rough year for the bees, but that is nature when you don't intervene and let them sink or swim on their own.

 

[lsgreg]

Nice hive builds.

I usually buy used hives, clean them, and slap mistinted paint on them ...

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Nice hive builds.

I usually buy used hives, clean them, and slap mistinted paint on them ...

I would, but there aren't a lot of used Layens hives around

 

[lsgreg]

I would, but there aren't a lot of used Layens hives around

That's for sure.

 

[CloverKnollFarms]

Last of the hives were checked for resources today, some were given honey frames from other colonies. All got their wool pillows and were locked up. I'll see them in Late February