The days are starting to blend

Day  14:

Tried sour sap juice for the first time with breakfast. Reminded me of a taste similar to orange juice.

We worked on cutlassing down more of the brush in the garden. Afterwards, we went to cool off at the beach for a little while. Later on we rendered the empty combs into beeswax. We boiled the wax in a contraption we made, and came out with a solid portion. We are going to reboil again tomorrow in order to increase its purity.

We next squeezed out more honey comb we had previously collected and ended up with about 3 and a half gallons of honey. We now have more empty combs that too can be turned into wax tomorrow. Now we are left with the sticky cleanup before heading to bed. Peppermint extract is used with much of the cleaning as it repels bees away.


Day 15:

We had our first unsupervised mission in the bees today. First we had to move a hive from where it was to another location, in order to free up the supplies it was sitting on. We also investigated a smaller hive that was captured as a swarm about a week ago. This hive had a queen, eggs, and very dense patterns of brood - All good signs for a hive.

A cook was hired to help in the kitchen, making meals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. This opens up a lot more time for work to be done in the garden. My roomate Spencer also flew in from Florida today.

For desert we ate chocolate cake and used banana leaves as plates. Once done, we just through our plate right into the compost pile.

Day 16:

Cutlassed out areas around banana trees so they would be able to grow and yield more. We made many batches of wax and experiment with a recipe to make lotion.