Straining honey from partly-filled honey super frames

P.P.S.: 8:09 p.m.: Another nine pints strained; the YBeek and I will use the odd pint for the baklava (see P.S., below). Commenced to wash up. Honey gets everywhere!

P.S.: 6:15 p.m.: Fetched the YBeek from school; he helped strain and bottle 12 pints, plus a cloudy 2/3rds of a pint pressed from the wax which we will use to make baklava tomorrow.. More will strain through during the evening. The bees have completely cleaned their first nine frames; inverted the Roughneck box over the frames on the cart in case it rains tonight. If it's warm and clear, I will give them another nine frames tomorrow.

Noon: Today it is finally warm enough and dry enough to scrape the capped comb from the partly filled honey-super frames, and to put these frames in front of the hives for the bees to clean.

We have 18 of these frames; some capped one side only, some partly capped one side; some with comb partly raised and otherwise empty; when we took them off, we put them into four RubberMaid Roughneck boxes. Then we installed varroa mite strips in the hives, and began to feed with fall formula sugar syrup. The frames have been stored in the barn, waiting for the rain to stop and the weather to warm a bit.

Today, I scraped off capped comb with a big spoon and a spatula, and am straining the honey from the broken cappings through the two honey-strainers and into the honey bucket with the honey gate.

The bees, who have been somewhat casually flying now the goldenrod and asters are coming to a close, a few seconds after I began to unload the first box-load of processed frames onto their cart which I had set in front of the hives, came out to hang in a curtain on the fronts, my guess is, getting organized to take advantage of the bonanza.