day 131 - Bees

I took my oldest son and daughter to a beekeeping class. We all thought it would be fun. They didn't enjoy the listening to them talk all that much but they did enjoy seeing the bees and some of the hands on activities. The wife showed us how to make bread, using some honey in it of course, which fascinated my daughter. My son was able to hammer together a frame that goes in the beehive, he loved that. Then they put some bees into a couple of hives. My kids kept wanting to get right up close to take a good look. Maybe if things are going a little more smoothly around here next year we'll get a beehive for the yard. We'll have to find out what's involved in harvesting the honey when we go back in Aug.