Honeybees Childhood Memories

From the past that you can remember like it was yesterday. Mine memories was getting honeybees. And building the stuff we need to get them. Honeybees is fun to mess with. But some time its not cause it hurts.

Do you have any childhood memory. My childhood memories is getting honeybees. Before we started getting honeybees we had to build the bee box you can buy them but we built our own. I remember getting the wood to build the box. The sawdust was all in the air and my hand was dirty and it was hurting for messing with the wood. It smelled like pine because that what it was is pine. And you couldn’t hear nothing because of the saw sawing the wood and sanding it down. And then after we got the box built we started to build the bee box stands
But the time went on and you gotta check them every other week to be safe. We had about 80 to 100 hives. When you go to check them you put your suit on and you got a smoker that put pine straw or cotton in it. We use pine straw because we got a lot of that around the house. There good things and bad things about messing with honeybees. The good parts is that it fun.the bad part is that the smoke is all in the air and getting in your mouth and eyes. And the bees is stinging you and the suits is hot. They are wild when you are robbing them. When we get all the honey we carry the honey up to the honey house with our red honey truck that my mom painted a honey bee on the hood. But we get it to the honey house and carry it in and it's got to be cold in there. We stay up late at night with two hot knife to cut the top of it and put it in a electric spinning thing to get the honey out and while it doing that we are putting the labels on the jars and put the honey in the jar from the other batch of honey. The honey is sticky and its smells good but sweet. The honeycombs that is left or we cut off we carry it outside to let the honey bees eat it and clean it