Holiday Cleanup or Peace in the Home
My Bee Stuff Pile of "Junk (tm)"
As usual, my hobbies tend to generate a lot of clutter. Most of my projects are a WIP – Work in Progress – which usually end up with what my wife would call “Junk ™” that tends to accumulate as my gumption meanders. For most of the year, this merely festers, but with the advent of the holiday season and the imminent visitation from our relatives, these piles of very useful Project Components – “Junk ™” – can become a sore spot in any relationship. So, it’s time to clean things up. Part of that includes assembling the rest of my beehive woodenware and getting that out of the way. Since I don’t have a workshop yet, this stuff tends to accumulate in the dining-room – a room that we really don’t use all that much for most of the year but that becomes a focal point during the holidays. Hence – a huge pile of “Junk ™.”
Stack of hive bodies and telescoping covers being painted.
Step one for that particular pile is to finish the hives and get them outside. After all, the best place to store hive equipment like beehives is out in the bee-yard. I have lotsa empty hives out there already – which attracts swarms in the Spring. So, this weekend has found me painting my boxes and telescoping covers and then I’ll be gluing together the last of my unassembled frames and getting those guys outside as new beehives. That’ll just leave a few items like my tools and extractor that will be much easier to make less visibly obtrusive.
Of course, that’s just one of my piles. I have several others that I’ve also been nibbling at too. It’s amazing how fast this stuff builds up. But my wife has been sorta patient so far – but like anything else, it’s better to not rest on that patience and get that stuff taken care of pronto. While others may see a Spring Cleaning, this represents for me a Holiday Cleaning. It’s dirty work – but someone has to do it.
