“You never can tell with bees.” ― Winnie-the-Pooh

OH BOTHER.

Saturday was a beautiful day, after the cold front moved through the area and the skies cleared.  Sunshine and mid-70's. and Iowa -vs- Iowa State on the radio.

I took the opportunity to pull a few frames of honey.  Then I took a cruse over to Tom and Lil's to check on a problem with bees in the floor joist of the second floor.

Well, this turned into being a bigger project than what I had planned.  Second floor, electrical wires and BEEs lots of Bees.

 

 I felt like Poo Bear with his hand in the honey jar.  Layer of comb upon layer of comb.  Going back at least four feet so far...

I've never dug into a hive in the side of a house like this.  Let alone on the second floor working off a ladder.

After borrowing a sweat shirt from Tom, I got to work with a hand saw and a garden hoe.  Pulling out comb with honey and brood comb with larva.  Separating the honey into one container and the brood into a hive body.

 Still searching for the queen.

For the past few years Bellevue has been a musical wasteland.  But recently we've been lucky enough to have Mooney Hollow and Codfish Hollow barns with gigs and a new music store   

Lock-12-Music-and-Trading-Co.  Where I picked up this new Stratocaster style guitar.

 https://www.facebook.com/pages/Lock-12-Music-and-Trading-Co/399243606884850?sk=timeline

The guitars will be artistically decorated and dipped.  Then the finished guitars will be auctioned off with the proceeds going to the stores guitar library and FREE music lesson program.  What a great thing for the people of Bellevue.





 

Last night we relaxed at the  Flatted Fifth Blues & BBQ at Potter's Mill  and listened to an old "Friend".  Spencer Bohren, so if  he swings through your area and your looking for something good? The sweetest lap steel guitar you've ever heard plus some real good blues and storytelling be sure to check him out.