snow day

it doesn’t seem like grandma and grandpa K live that far away normally, but when they have almost a foot of snow on the group when we have none it’s like a different world

2014 Honey Harvest

This was the first year for Papa K’s honeybees, so we weren’t really expecting to harvest much honey.  We were pleasantly surprised with 5 full quart jars and lots of smaller jars full of the rich golden liquid. 

To harvest the honey you have to basically take apart the hive, which understandably upsets the bees.  I think my favorite part was watching them brush the bees off of the comb and watching the chunks of bees just fall away. 

To extract the honey we borrowed a separator from the local honey bee association, and it was nice!  Just have to spin the crank and the honey comes flying out.  While everyone was inside taking their turns at the crank, I snuck back outside with the smoke in one hand and camera in the other.  I had to stick my lens in that hive and get a close-up. 

baby on the beach

Traveling with a little guy could have been awful, but he was a dream.  He had very little trouble on the four different plane rides and did really well all week.  He didn’t sleep the best, but he made up for that by taking LONG naps during the day.  He even let me take an evening away to swim with photoluminescent plankton and an afternoon snorkeling with papa.  It was so much fun to introduce him to my cousins and their parents.  We even did a 2 mile run/walk on the beach during which we had to fight through a tropical shower.  Of course he loved it.  His favorite place to be all week had to be the pool though.  Poor little guy was always so hot, he really enjoyed his afternoon dips in the pool!  Getting him signed up for swim lessons asap!

Oh yeah, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving did happen ya’ll.  Here’s the proof.