Friday March 12, 2010

 

 

Bob’s Minnesota Wood Shop

…Bees and Maple Syrup

February 24-26

 

 

 Bob and Cerwin spent most of Wednesday and Thursday in the shop.

 

 

Juanita delivered their morning snack – hot chocolate – on Thursday.

 

 

 They framed, insulated, and painted a new area of the shop which he is going to use for spraying furniture.

 

 

 

Cleaning up

 Cl

 

 Making a new rack for his pipe clamps

 

 

  

 

Doris and Mother admiring a beautiful sewing machine cabinet he recently finished. As you can see, he is a skilled cabinetmaker. 

 

 

 Doris took mother and me on a tour of their honey and maple syrup room, which is behind the shop.

 

 

 Bob’s beekeeper outfit

 

 

 It won’t be too many weeks before they will be busy with tapping and boiling maple syrup.

 

 

Sugar is used to feed the bees before the flowers are blooming.

 

 

A honeycomb tray

 

 

The bees are currently dormant – waiting for warmer days.

 

 

After a bear knocked over a beehive, Bob make a protective, electric fence to discourage this from happening again.

 

  

This area will be a hive of activity when flowers begin blooming in northern Minnesota.

 

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Tomorrow night: Japheth’s Shop “A Stitch in Time”

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