Well, it's been about 10 days since I perked up a new batch of metheglin and I decided to add another 2 1/2 pounds of honey and another tablespoon each of Fermaid K and yeast energizer.  Not anything really interesting to look at as far as taking a picture as it looks the same as the carboy a week and a half ago other than the level is up a bit more.  It is now at about 6 3/4 gallon which is about perfect for my purposes.  This has produced a bit more bubbles in the air trap so I am happy.  Ah, okay, here's a gratuitous shot:

 

Hmmm....a little fuzzy.  There is a nice bit of foam off the top as I stirred up the batch really well after adding the honey and the other two items.  I did put in just a bit of hot water in the honey jug on the right to get the last of the honey out.  If you do that and you swish it around, be careful: it will expand quickly and pop the top.  I kept the lid partially closed while I shook it and the air pushed out all right.

After I added the ingredients, I replaced the lid and the air trap and back to its corner it went.

It was a really pretty day out so I decided to go out and pester the bees.  The day prior, I had peeked in the top and noticed that the sugar water was empty.  It was kind of cold out so I thought to wait a day and I'm glad I did.  The sun is out as well as the girls.  At least a lot of them are out making their rounds.  There should only be a few thousand of them in the boxes!  I mixed up a gallon of sugar water, grabbed my gear and went out to the bee dormitory.

I pulled the pint jar feeders and washed them out as they appeared a bit gummy inside.  Here are the jars.  I show them off as they are antiques and quite a pretty blue.  The bees don't concern themselves too much with the flair, but I hope it is the vibe of coolness that is imparted on them:

I wish I had saved the pic of the hive opened.  Changes are almost a daily thing inside a hive.  It is amazing to see how much of the comb has been developed in the upper tier.  There are a lot more larva baking in the cells inside.  I've noticed quite a fair of orientation flights of new bees outside the hive in the afternoon.  I did not see the queen today, but she is very busy inside.

Speaking of queens, Robin laid down the law today.  She dragged over a bunch of corkscrew willow branches from the neighbor lady across the street a couple weeks back.  I swear that lady was snickering when she saw my face.  Here I am trying to get rid of branches and my lovely bride is bring over the neighbor's!  Well, I started grousing about those branches being in the way of the lawnmower today and Robin caught me off guard by asking me what I wanted to do with them...  I will say in my defense that I am working nights and was not at my full mental capacity and my spidey sense did not trigger.  I think I mentioned burning them or something and quickly realized this was not the correct response when I saw HER face.

We got into a zesty conversation about projects and the next thing I know is that we are attaching these branches to the front fence line so that her Malabar spinach and other climbing plants will have a place to go.  It may sound a bit awful in theory and I grumbled through the whole process, but it does look quite pretty.  Tomorrow, I'll see if I can get a decent shot of it and add it to this post. (Added-here is a pic of the fence line:)

After all was said and done, we went on a bike ride with my son Conor this evening.  There are a few nesting Killdeer around here that I was anxious to check on.  They are beautiful birds that have cute pilot helmets on and I just love to see them darting about.  Just up the street we saw that two nests had hatched and tiny Killdeer were speeding about the neighbor's lawns.  What a nice end to a pretty great day.

That's  it for this evening.  I hope your day ends on a high note as well.