Dave  - "When  are you going to rob the bees?"  -Never robbed a hive and
never will.

Many old sayings in beekeeping.

One I used to hear and heard again about four years ago.

I was coming up the side roads in New Mexico making my way around a weigh
scale when I saw an old beekeeper sitting in the back of his pickup truck in
an old tattered lawn chair with a homemade sign saying "Honey for Sale".

I stopped and inquired about the dark and the light honey he was selling.

The beekeeper said the light honey was his "spring squeezing" and the dark
was his "fall squeezing"

I could tell by the grease under his nails that he spent a great deal of
time working on the old "bee truck" he was sitting in.

I hoped he at least washed his hands before squeezing the honey I bought.

The honey looked clear but was crystallized about a quarter way up the quart
mason jar ( as was all the jars in the two cases he offered for sale).

Several people bought honey while I was at the stand and others were pulling
in as I left.

I had to chuckle as I pulled back on the highway as I had not heard
extracting honey referred to as "squeezing" for over twenty years.

Bob

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