tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220884036652940042024-03-05T11:35:15.641-08:00B&E's BeesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222088403665294004.post-46660818571135966292014-06-24T16:47:00.001-07:002014-06-25T15:12:55.073-07:00We have Honey We finally have a limited supply of honey for sale. Our price is the same as last year, $10.00 for a one pound glass bottle. We are happy to ship anywhere in the US for the additional shipping costs only. We never charge for handling or packaging.<br />
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Honey this year is all a light amber and excellent quality. If you are interested in purchasing our honey while supplies last please contact us at the following email address: eh648@yahoo.com.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222088403665294004.post-4217171565363475372014-02-26T17:01:00.000-08:002014-02-26T17:04:10.229-08:00Long Winter We don't need to tell anyone how long, cold and snowy this winter has been. But from the warmth of our house looking out into the apiary one wonders how much tougher it must be on that little colony of bees trying to survive to better, abundant days of spring. Winter does take its toll, we've lost three of our hives since last fall. We are not sure of the reason but likely they just ran out of access to their stored honey and the numbers so declined they could not maintain the cluster through this seemingly endless winter.<br />
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With that said, we are awaiting the spring warm up and to see how the remaining hives are doing. Earlier checks showed they had plenty of honey stored. Hopefully, we will have a great spring with plenty of locust blooms. In the meantime, we will start new colonies this spring replacing those lost through the winter of 2014. We will post and get the word out if and when our 2014 honey will be available. Thanks for dropping by.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222088403665294004.post-55050347601037552892012-07-26T10:30:00.000-07:002012-07-26T10:30:44.941-07:00We Have Honey!<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"> <span style="font-size: large;">We have harvested honey from our hard working bees and now have honey ready to sale. Now, we know beekeepers that claim and swear their honey is the best they ever tasted. We can't speak to all those claims but we can say the honey we have this year is the best WE have ever tasted, and we have tried all kinds. Bar none, in our humble opinion, compares to our honey this season .</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-family: BaaBookHmk; font-size: large;"> We will be happy to ship our premium honey anywhere in the U.S. Just shoot us an email us telling how much you want so we can calculate the shipping costs and let you know. We will make arrangements then on payment details.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966;"> <b style="font-family: BaaBookHmk; font-size: x-large;"> If you are interested in purchasing or have questions about our honey please send us an email- <a href="mailto:BandEbeesky@gmail.com">BandEbeesky@gmail.com</a>. </b></span></div>
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throughout centuries as a main ingredient for soaps, lotions, lip balms and,
well, so many other products. Though we use many of these very items in our
everyday lives, <span style="color: black;">lip balm </span>seem
a particular necessity these days. In the winter our lips get chapped from the
cold, blustery winds and in the summer we use it to protect our lips from the hot,
damaging rays of the sun. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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and you can find really good brands - some expensive and some cheap. I think
the kind of lip balm that includes beeswax as an ingredient is the best by far.
Since I have quite a bit of good, clean
beeswax on hand it seems wasteful to me to purchase the
"store-bought" kind of lip balm. Making lip balm seems a really fun
project and I'm figuring that it can't be too difficult. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Candy Buzz BTN", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: "Hank BT"; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #660000;">Using very few ingredients might be the best
course and, for me, this is one of those "less is more" kind of deal.
I don't want this to be a full-blown science experiment…I’m just wantin' to
keep it very simple. If it's too difficult to make, then who would want to make
it again? Not me! So, after scouring a few internet sites and researching
recipes in my "how-to" books, it appears easy enough. I will just try
to combine a recipe or two and come up with one really outstanding homemade lip
balm. Well, at least, that's the plan.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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small batch at a time would be a good idea - that way, if it bombs, I can
always tweak the ingredients, start over, and not waste precious beeswax. If it
turns out to be a terrific recipe, then I'm meltin' down all the wax I have and
I’m sellin' this stuff!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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lemon, orange) </span><span style="font-family: "Hank BT"; font-size: 10pt;">I think this step
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<span style="font-family: "Candy Buzz BTN", sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-family: "Hank BT"; font-size: 12pt;">In searching through some recipes I
noticed that if you wanted to add a hint of color to your lip balm, all you had
to do is use a bit of a favorite lipstick. Don't use really old lipstick - one
that has gone rank. Why, that would be the same thing as using old or outdated shortening
or lard when making biscuits! I have to fess up...I'm terrible for keeping
lipsticks for years and “they” say you’re NOT supposed to do that! Secretly, I think I just
like the pretty cases. Anyway, I will continue this experiment and make some additional samples. While I am at it, I might just make some "lotion bars". Those are supposed to be so good for your skin.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"><b> </b><span style="font-size: large;"><b>We are fascinated by the life of a honey bee. There really is no other creature in the animal kingdom that has adapted the social and life cycle like the honey bee. We enjoy the wonderful benefit of their sweet food supply as a result of their behavior and success. The social order and organization of bees has been developed to the point of extreme efficiency. It's been said that a bee will gather one twelfth of a teaspoon of nectar during it's lifetime. </b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The entrance of a hive is like an airport with departures and arrivals all day long and TSA-like agents checking arrivals to make sure they belong to the hive. In a strong hive would-be intruders, usually robber-bees from another hive, are turned away.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> A bee will live 35-45 days and during that time will do nearly every task required to keep the hive going. From the time a bee emerges from the protective wax cell she (all worker bees are female) will undertake a variety of tasks beginning with feeding newly hatched larvae and future sisters, to wax building, honey manufacture, guard duty and finally and the last job of their life is a field worker. These are the ones that fly to and fro from the hive to the nectar-bearing plants. When you think about it, leaving the hive going out into the world is dangerous business. Calamities of all types await the little flyers. Predatory insects, lawn mowers, pesticides, dragon flies, birds, and dozens more insects all await the little worker. And don't forget sudden changes in weather such as rain. </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> The bee is effective because of their sheer numbers. A good egg laying queen, during peak spring honey flow, will lay perhaps a 1000-1500 eggs a day! In just 21 days that will be another 1000- 1500 bees added to the colony. Of course, nearly that many are dying off each day as well. But a healthy colony will have perhaps fifty to a hundred thousand bees on any given day.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> This time of year the Dutch white clover is the best source of nectar for the bees of central Kentucky. In the early spring honey locust is the finest source of nectar in our neck of the woods. But as the summer rolls on, fewer nectar producing flowers suitable to honey bees are available. </b></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our honey comes in two sizes presently, one pound jars: $9.00 without comb; $10.00 with comb, and in eight ounce jars without comb only: $5.00</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> Since this is our first year of operation we have limited supplies available. We expect to harvest more honey in the next couple of weeks. Most of this honey will be from the clover. We harvested some very light honey (from the honey locust tree) with the comb a couple of weeks ago and those supplies have just about sold out. We still have a few eight ounce jars left. We will post when the next supplies are available.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b> If you are interested in purchasing or have questions about our honey please send us an email- <a href="mailto:BandEbeesky@gmail.com">BandEbeesky@gmail.com</a>. We will be happy to ship anywhere in the U.S. at this time. Shipping charges will be calculated for your review before we complete the order. If your are in the central Ky area, we can make arrangements to deliver your honey. </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: BaaBookHmk;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thanks for visiting B&E's Bees!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: JanieHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">Did you know...</span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">that throughout history in <span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: AngsanaUPC; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Europe <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">people actually paid </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #0c343d;"><span style="font-family: BoogieWoogieHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">their </span>taxes </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with</span> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: GrilledCheese BTN Cn;">bees</span><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">wax </span></strong></span></span>? <span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I am not so sure that </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: "Earwig Factory"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">U</span>n<span style="color: blue;">c</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">l</span>e <span style="color: blue;">S</span>a</span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">m</span> </span></span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">would let us do that now but if he did, why, everyone would be raising bees</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: GrilledCheese BTN Cn;">!</span> <span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Let me tell you something else while I'm at it...</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: GrilledCheese BTN Cn;">bees</span><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">wax</span></strong></span> <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">makes the</span><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"> </span><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: "Roundhand Bd BT"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">finest candles</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">because the </span><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold;"><strong>wax is</strong></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"> so pure and burns so clean. The Catholic churches (and maybe other churches) </span></span></span></span><span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-size: large;">burned them for<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "GrilledCheese BTN Cn","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><em><span style="color: #741b47;">centuries</span> </em></span>because of that very reason.</span> </span></span>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovAfkxOVmf6zZiTXU7Jk0BCtvfp9cUSRNCPYNeRqDmX1yjpLXKydxtlv1cP7b_W_oqbANKztmiQlRgu_hp7t_uKurWcNtwTj8goKaHB-8xNwyIBTFRSc-0YOIVbiyK0TkiO7Pkxym76hu/s1600/imagesCAJ7J4W1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhovAfkxOVmf6zZiTXU7Jk0BCtvfp9cUSRNCPYNeRqDmX1yjpLXKydxtlv1cP7b_W_oqbANKztmiQlRgu_hp7t_uKurWcNtwTj8goKaHB-8xNwyIBTFRSc-0YOIVbiyK0TkiO7Pkxym76hu/s1600/imagesCAJ7J4W1.jpg" /></span></a><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-family: CaslonNo540SwaD;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In</span> <span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">our working with the <span style="font-family: GrilledCheese BTN Cn;">bees</span>, aft</span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">er we </span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Shotgun BT"; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">rob </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Shotgun BT"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">them and harvest the honey </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Shotgun BT"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Shotgun BT"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GrilledCheese BTN Cn;">bees</span><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><strong>wax </strong><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">remains. When I was a child, </span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Shotgun BT"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">chewing </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><strong><span style="color: #bf9000;">wax</span></strong> </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">with globs of honey still </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">attached </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">was a </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: "GrilledCheese BTN Cn","sans-serif"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Levenim MT"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">HUGE TREAT</span></span>. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">For children with very </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">little pocket money, </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: DesertDogHmk;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><strong><em>it was the BEST!</em></strong></span></span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;">
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Roundhand Bd BT";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sometimes </span></span>we like to leave the wax for the
bees but sometimes I like to find ways to use it. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Before I can </span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">re-</span></span><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">purpose the
wax it must be cleaned. There are </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: TwizotHmk; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">impurities </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: TwizotHmk; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">in that sweet golden mess and throughout the process of being</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: CluffHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: CluffHmkBold;">cleaned or </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: CluffHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: CluffHmkBold;">washed </span></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">you will be able to see just how </span></span><span style="font-family: TwizotHmk;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: TwizotHmk; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">dirty </span></span><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-weight: normal; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">the wax really is. </span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: BethsCuteHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">I can tell you one thing, I was downright surprised at how much debris is embedded in the wax. Nothing toxic, it just looks like something I would not want to eat. F</span></span></span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">or all I know, it might be absolutely delicious but I won't be trying it just yet. Oh wait! Come to think of it, if I eat honeycomb in its natural state - and I do - then I am ingesting this stuff. Has it made me sick? Nope. Absolutely not.</span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-size: small;"></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">It's actually a very simple process to clean</span>
</span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "GrilledCheese BTN Cn","sans-serif";">bees</span><strong><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: GeeohHmkBold; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi;">wax</span></strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS;">Grab an old </span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;">crock pot</span><span style="color: #38761d;"> <span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Comic Sans MS;">and fill halfway with warm water. Place </span></span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">the beeswax</span><strong><span style="color: #bf9000; font-family: GeeohHmkBold; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> </span></strong><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">into the pot and heat with the
lowest temperature. After the wax has melted (remember, it's a </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">crock pot</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"> so it will take a bit of time)
the </span><span style="color: #783f04; font-family: TwizotHmk; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">impurities</span> </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">just sink to the bottom and the
clean wax will float. </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: TwizotHmk; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">Unplug </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">the </span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">crock
pot</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;"> and let the wax cool </span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: CluffHmkBold; mso-bidi-font-family: Aparajita;">completely.</span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Bella Donna;">Once</span></span></span> you get the hang of making homemade <span style="color: blue; font-family: Amienne; font-size: 28pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #bf9000;">biscuits</span> </span><span style="color: blue;">you</span> can <span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Roundhand Bd BT"; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">whip</span></span>these out just about as <span style="font-size: large;"><em>f</em></span>ast as you can <span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Stereofidelic; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Stereofidelic; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">“<span style="color: #6aa84f;">Whop and pop</span>”<span style="background-color: white; color: blue;"> </span><span style="background-color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">canned biscuits. This is a tried-and-true generational recipe. Standing next to my mom and grandmother in the kitchen while watching carefully, I learned to make these. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Stereofidelic; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: Stereofidelic; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="background-color: blue; font-family: Georgia; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: blue;">Like them, I don't measure my ingredients now...it's a <span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Bella Donna"; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Andalus; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">"you just know" <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">how-it-will-turn-out </span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman;">recipe</span> and it's a recipe meant to be shared and passed <span style="background: white; color: blue; font-family: "Sybil Green"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Andalus; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">along.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">I only use <span style="font-size: large;">White Lily</span> flour<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">because it is what my Mom and Grandma Hall always used so why mess with a good thing and I would hate to cause Grandma to spin in her grave.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">1 cup of <span style="color: blue; font-family: Amienne; font-size: 24pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">buttermilk or sweet milk </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(sweet milk is just another name for regular
milk for you modern folks)</span></span>. If you don't have buttermilk just add 1or 2 T. lemon juice or vinegar to 1 cup of milk to substitute). Most recipes call for 3/4 cup milk in the recipe but I always use one cup because the biscuits are just, well, better! </span></div>
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This spring has been a great one with plenty of flowers and nectar. Early in our area of central Kentucky henbit was in abundance. The honey locust trees produced an outstanding crop of blooms as well as the tulip poplar and in our specific location wild plums seemed to be an attraction for our bees. But now the big ticket item for the bees is the overwhelming amount of clover this year. Fields are covered with the white Dutch clover which is a favorite of bees and produces some very nice honey.<br />
I just checked on a hive that we thought would swarm this spring and found the honey super I just put on a couple of weeks ago is nearly full! I plan to add another super in the next couple of days. With such a large population of bees in this particular hive we thought for sure they would swarm but they are generously expanding their stores so we will be in for a treat in a few weeks. We will rob (remove ) extra stores of honey but leave plenty for the winter months.<br />
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The clover as noted is abundant and very large this season. With plenty of spring rain and those amazing weeks of summer like weather throughout April and much of March has created a great nectar crop this year. The warm days in March allowed the bees to collect nectar and pollen from those early blooming shrubs.One of the earliest flower plants in this region is a little plant that may go unnoticed until we see a complete field covered with the plant. It is called henbit and is absolutely a favorite for the bees to first begin collecting from in the early spring.<br />
As we move through the summer we expect the nectar flow to slow some and then pick up again this fall when the goldenrod blooms.<br />
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From what we here from other bee keepers in our area this has been a tremendous spring for nectar and pollen. With the very mild, even summer like weather all spring, the bees have had plenty of opportunity to forage the country side. And as shown above fields that produced last year's crop of soy beans, corn or whatever, provided a great opportunity for the henbit to be abundant in the cooler days of early spring.<br />
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The clover has come into full blossom and our bees seem quite busy working the fields. Everyone says there is an amazing amount of clover in their fields and lawns. We like that of course because that means plenty of nectar which means plenty of honey.<br />
Our hives are doing well and we expect to expand next season by several more if things go well during the winter months.<br />
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Bees will collect both nectar and pollen for food supplies to last them through the winter months. They need both for survival and good health. Each worker bee has different jobs throughout its life span of 35-45 days! Yes, within 45 days all the bees in a colony, except the queen, will have been replaced by new bees. The queen can live and continue to be a productive egg layer for perhaps three years. Now those bees that are in the hive when winter arrives will live longer than kinfolk from the summer. They will survive all the months of the winter until the weather warms and the queen starts laying eggs again.<br />
Some bees work as nursery workers, comb builders, guards and foragers, the ones we see flying in and out of the hive. Every bee, according to the experts, does every one of these job duties throughout their live span beginning with attending to and feeding the new larvae in the hive to finally traveling out of the hive collecting nectar and pollen. That is the last job the work will do in their life and, of course, is the most hazardous duty as well.<br />
We expect to harvest some honey in a few weeks and we'll let you know when we have it available. Thanks for stopping by our site and hope you enjoy the posts.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-family: inherit;">Welcome to B and E's Bees blog site. We are new bee keepers and honey producers. Well, actually our bee buddies produce the honey and do all the heavy lifting work. We take care of their hives, feed and care for them in the rough times and share in their bounty in the good times. Our bees make a light and very mild tasting honey. We believe it is due to the honey locust and dutch white clover which make up a large part of the nectar in our area. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> We are new to bee keeping and really have limited experience but hopefully will have good fortune with us as we start up production this fall. Currently we are in the establishing and expansion phase of our apiary and expect to expand over the next two years to full production of this very fine and light honey.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> This blog site will keep visitors up to date on our activities and availability of honey. We hope to add photos and videos of our adventures in the near future. So check back often. Thanks for stopping by! </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1