This was actually how much we did LAST weekend. I don't have the pics of what we did yesterday. But we added the corner posts, with temporary braces to hold them, and two of the beams across the tops. It's a learn-as-we-go experience. We stopped working yesterday because I wanted supper, and we needed L-brackets that we didn't have.
In the process yesterday, we discovered we have two racoons living in the barn... way, WAAAYYY up near the roof. One of them is a monster-sized beast. They have to go.
We also took El Jefe's new revolver down to the river where there is a backstop, and I tried it out. In the process, we discovered again that the dog will never be a gundog, since at the first shot, he lit out for home like a bear was after him. He came back to us looking highly embarrassed about ten minutes later, as we were walking up the path to home. I like the Ruger LCR better than any other revolver I've ever tried, but I still much prefer semi-autos.
Friday morning, I got a call from a friend about a swarm of bees hanging 7-8' up in a pine tree in her back yard. She had to go to work before we could get there, but she left good directions, and I found them with no trouble. It was the easiest bee capture EVER. Even though I had to do it by myself. I transported them home in the trunk of the car and they are happily ensconced in a nuc box I had. We hadn't planned on getting bees again until next year, but darned if I'm going to turn down a free swarm. El Jefe is on his way to Dadant to pick up a hive body so I can transfer them as soon as they have built out four/fifths of the frames in the nuc. I should have told him to pick up a swarm capture box while he's there, since it occurs to me that the weird warm weather we've had this spring may provoke more swarms than usual - I believe I'll sign off and see if I can get him on the cell to do that.
Pic of the bees in their tree... That ball is slightly smaller than a football, maybe three pounds of bees.
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