Yep, it's in. . . .Unfortunately it's not as much as we thought we would have. Some of the supers just never got drawn out.
The total amount of cut comb boxes are 40. I'm going to try to be fair and bring some to each market. Today at Westgate, I have 12 boxes wrapped and ready to go. The cost is $7.50.
I also have another update on taking my spring honey to market. I haven't mentioned this out in the market but we have had a whole lot of personal issues going on. My brother in law was in a horrible motorcycle accident 8 weeks ago and still is in the process of healing. There were times during the first few weeks that we didn't think we would ever get a chance to laugh with him again and although he still hasn't gotten to the point of laughing yet, we know he will. On top of that about 4 weeks into this my absolutely best friend and husband started to have some weird things going on with his heart. To make a long story short we have a phenomenal family physician who scheduled a stress test and when she got the results called us immediately and then pushed his cardiologist into doing a heart cath. The day we showed up his Heart Doctor kept saying that he was sure that the stress test was probably reflecting a false positive. Jim looked great and it's really hard to tell when something is going on with him. His heart cath. was scheduled for Wed. We stopped up to see his brother before the surgery, that's the only way I could get him to agree to go to the hospital, and surgery started around 1:00 p.m. By 2:30 we hadn't heard anything and I was pacing and started to bug the poor people at the desk, that's when I found out that there actually was some blockage and they were in the middle of repairing them. Turns out that Jim had four blocked arteries. One was 100%, one was 95%, one was 85% and the last one was 25%.
(Here is a little sidebar and I have to put this in - the last time Jim had a heart cath they inadvertently pushed a air bubble into his heart and he coded on the table right then and there. Hearing code blue and having someone take your family out of the "big" room into a little room is not something I would wish on anyone. 19 minutes they worked on him until he was revived. So Jim wasn't really looking forward to this process of going in and getting another heart cath. could you blame him?)
So after they finished up and brought us up to see him in his room it was amazing. He looked a thousand times better than he looked the time before his last cath. and by Thursday morning we were headed home. And yes on the way home from the hospital we went over to visit his brother.
I'm sharing this so that you understand we have been over our heads in "stuff" and although we have been able to take excellent care of our bees the extracting part has had to wait. Jim was on a weight lifting restriction and I've been dealing with a bad shoulder since March. We did finally purchase an electric extractor, my shoulder would have never taken the hand crank, and we started plans to put the honey house in. We need to have the extractor bolted into cement to use it.
This summer has taught us a great deal, family and health come first. I'm sorry that we won't be able to do an early extraction because I know there were a whole lot of folks looking forward to that spring honey but this year it just isn't going to happen.
Hopefully next year it will happen but in the meantime we will make do with what we have.
