Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Floor reveal

The great floor reveal; here it is!

From the kitchen, looking toward the pantry and living room.


And here:

In the living room, looking toward the pantry.

It is beautiful, and we love it.

A bit less thrilled that there is still the downstairs bedroom to floor, and the entire upstairs...

Ah, well. Onward.

Meanwhile, we opened the new bee hive yesterday, to put in the five foundation frames we had left out of it, in order to fit the swarm in.

First, DH prepared his equipment, including the smoker, which has been sitting in the shed for the past year or so. While he was off fetching this item and that, the ever-helpful terrier was wrestling the smoker up and down the path.

"Stop that," DH told him, exasperated. "There are no mice in there."

He picked up the smoker and opened it, removing the old burlap still tucked inside, and then he yelped in surprise and dropped it. A mouse poked its head out to inquire about all the rude handling of its nice, snug house.

There was a brief interval required to escort the mouse out of view of the terrier and remove its pantry full of seeds, and then DH proceeded with the hive opening. 

Little hiccup there; they have been busy bees, and they simply built their own combs to fill in the gap. Five of them. In a week.

Attached to the lid.

Whoopsie.

So next on the agenda is to cut those loose, use cotton string to tie them into wooden frames with the foundation removed, and reinstall them. I can just imagine how much the hive is going to appreciate that little exercise.

Well. Onward with that, too, I suppose. But not just yet, because we have to first order this cotton string, and it's supposed to rain for awhile. So the bees have a reprieve. By then they'll probably have built an entire new hive box. And god only knows what the mice will have found to climb into.

It really is never dull around here. 


  

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