Bees

The month of June has mainly been extemely hot with temperatures well over 30 degrees and has predominately consisted of getting our new bees settled into their new hives and rescuing our neighbours bees which swarmed twice.

Our new bees arriving

The swarm up a tree

Chris going up to collect the swarm

Putting the swarm into their new home

The other major event this month was the construction of our new pergolga.

 Construction begins

Taking shape

Finished. The final finsihing touch will be when the grape vines eventually cover it

Work has now turned to working on the studio and laying the floor and constructing the balcony

Chris also had the job of breaking up the concrete to the old septic tank

The rest of the old conrete has also been broken down in the the garden the with the help of friends the little old shack attached to the barn workshop has been knocked down. We now think we might leave it as a patio area as it gets the sun first thing in the morning and shade during the day

 With our friends we took a trip out to one of the local monastries and Etera, a working museum village preserving local crafts and traditional workmanship

Of course, time spent with our friends wouldnt be the same without a blow out chinese to top it off.