The Spring and Fall mean a lot of work to a beekeeper. We would love to share a few pictures of our hard work.
Walking to the back yard to start some bee work.
Notice how he only wears the top section and thin gloves. Yes, he has been stung, but only one time this year, five times last year. The tool in his hand helps him pull the honey frames out of the boxes.
Notice our Caution sign. This is for legal reasons.
We also collect the wax. After we extract the honey, we break down the frames and put them in a metal pan, that is put into our home made wax melt box.
The box is closed with the wax inside and it has a clear window that is faced toward the sun, the wax melts out of the frames to the bottom of the box. It is way easier than picking out the wax.
Then we take that wax out along with scraps of wax and melt it in a crock pot, and pour it into molds. We have a lot of wax, and this year we are thinking about making candles for Christmas for our friends.
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Were a Metro Detroit, Michigan, couple – second marriages for both of us – and we dream of retiring early to Travel the World. Follow us while we try and figure out to raise our kids, and save to retire.
David is a Robot Programmer, Laura is a Medical Physicist. We put our kids before ourselves for years, saved and ate at home and now after years of all this sacrifice and raising our kids - we are closing in on empty nesting, and we realized we have the opportunity to retire earlier than most and follow our dreams to travel the world.
How are we going to do this? Well we have a lot of ideas, but lets see how it works out. Our original retirement date was January 1, 2021. We are reviewing the option of working another 3 years but prefer to keep the 2021 date, either way we will be retired by 55 years old - still trying to figure out how, but working toward our goal everyday, while enjoying each other and our blended family.
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