Hairy MacLairy, the long suffering ram, was left to watch the Shush Sisters yesterday. 
He is benevolent Uncle personified.. or ramified as the case may be. 
So he took them over to visit with Queenie Wineti under the tree where they could play in the muck. 
While I stole a couple of jars of honey. 
It appears that we are going to have a good harvest. 
I have at least twenty frames full and capped. 
Ready to go. The bees will mind them for me and next week I shall harvest them. Yesterday I took only one frame and got three little jars of honey. 
Good morning. I am late posting this morning due to the increasingly frustrating internet issues. Maybe Mercury really is playing with my gear.
Those are air bubbles that you can see in the jars of honey! These will have settled by this morning. The first jars are always given away. This is a custom from my family and my country. (New Zealand) So one of these is off to the Old Codger this morning. One will be held for my favourite Fed ex delivery man and one to The Matriarch. And there is a little still in the bowl, from the overnight drain, left for me. I am tempted to just pop my finger in there and lick it like pooh bear. The taste is much more delicate than last year. And the colour is light. I think it is all the yellow blossom clover that I sowed in the fields. This is going to be spectacular.
Have a lovely day.
celi
On this day a year ago.. We are looking at flowers you can plant for your bees in your garden. How well timed.
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86 responses to “Hairy MacLairy Babysits while Miss C Harvests Honey!”
Mmmmmmmmmm fresh honey! Thanks to you I now know just how good this stuff is. Morning, miss c
oh your honey looks marvelous. I find myself wanting to come for a visit for a few weeks to help around and about.
One day i would like to build a wee writers ginger bread house in the garden, so you could do just that!! just imagine.. c
oh wouldn’t that be lovely.
I love the tradition of giving the first lot away. How did it get started? Honey looks delicious mmmmmmm. I am so in love with that Hairy MacLairy!
My Mother did a basket weaving course with the maori women one year when I was a child and this is what they were taught, we so loved the idea that it was adopted by the family and has become a tradition for many things and most especially the first of the season.. c
It is a wonderful tradition!,
Gorgeous photos – is it the tall teenager still doing your shoots for you C – he really is doing a stellar job and would you look at that honey! Awesome! Lovely custom to have too.
Have a super weekend.
🙂 Mandy
yes TT took the shots of me, but he had bread sticks in the oven (homemade) so he literally went click click click, dumped the camera on a fence post and ran back to his oven… funny! c
Well, TT really is becoming quite the advanced photographer AND cook/baker! Well done C!
I get my honey from a neighboring farm and had been resisting the urge to invest resources into yet another duty like beekeeping….until now.
Fantastic looking honey – wonderful. I did a shoot with a nearby apiculteur ( honey production is very popular here) but lost all the pictures when a hard drive crashed and corrupted 5 years worth of pictures. An object lesson in carefully storing and backing up digital files. I’m good at teaching but bad at practising what I teach. Hairy is one very tolerant ram.
oops, that must have been awful. i never back up..i do try to print.. oh dear, best i get onto that.. really.. but it is so Time Consuming trying to get it right all the time!! c
Amazing pics of Hairy and the Shush sisters and yummy honey …. nice white bees wax too! Mercury will be kinder from the 9th – hang in there 🙂 Laura
hanging!! c
I love the photos of Hairy with the Shush sisters! He is a patient soul!
You are so lucky to have fresh honey! It looks amazing!
What a good fellow, that Hairy is! Does he hire out? I could use a sitter for the afternoon…
That honey is spectacular…we’ll get to adding the bees around here someday, when Angel’s a little older. You’re really a star, to get into the neccessary gear in this awful heat!
One day i am going to invest in a proper suit, but until then it is my green jeans and some kind of long sleeved pale thing, it is hot though, but I am very excited about the honey! c
Good morning Celi, I was wondering how the bees were after the crop spraying incident the other week and had been meaning to ask how they were and kept forgetting or being distracted by naughty piggies and their ramifications!! (just love the use of that word – thanks to you) Well I know now that the honey is good!
I’m a Pooh Bear when it comes to honey. I use it on my blisters too. 🙂
what an excellent idea! c
I love that babysitter! He doesn’t care if sharp little piggy hooves get all over him.
Linda
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Just buzzing by to see how you be.
(Be the Pooh! Nothing’s better!) I always love those glass jars with the grapes and fruit logo on them – what a nice tradition to share with those around – forgot how much of that was done around the farms.
Funny how much like children those shush sisters are!
Enjoy the days as they fold along – we wistfully follow
Mouse! hope all is well with you.. i shall pop in this weekend, cross fingers for a good connection! c
Everything good here. Know you are busy – so don’t worry. If you get time, sit down and enjoy the weekend
Yummmm. Pats on the back for Hairy and for the tall Teenager, and a hug for you too.