Honey Harvest

Last week we harvested some of the honey from our beehives.  We had several friends come over to watch.

Cathi uncapping a frame

Patrick spins the uncapped frames in the extractor.

 Haven and Nicolas look at some bee eggs in a piece of comb.

Cute spectators

Aislyn takes a turn spinning

Jimmy uncaps a frame

Patrick

Livy's turn

Some of the finished product

Honey bears are so cute!

Independence Day

On July Fourth we went to Pickwick Lake for the fireworks display.

Our family

The Heaths and 2 cousins

The Gallaghers

We visited and picnicked while we waited for it to get dark.

Awww!

Festive Cookies

Inside Pickwick Inn they had a temporary display of live birds and animal skins.

Some of our group enjoyed holding the birds

Back at our picnic spot it starts to get dark...

...and out come the sparklers!

Aylah's sparkler, captured with a slow shutter speed

The guys shot off some bottle rockets while we waited for the "real" fireworks.

A lake full of boats waiting for the show

And here it goes!