August
2012
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08/31/2012

Made braces for the post and beams.
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08/30/2012

Painting

East end primed.

Moving Day, 3rd swarm relocated to apiary.

In 75 days they made 11 combs like this, honey on top brood on the
bottom.
See all the combs here.
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08/29/2012

Made a new bee hive.

West end primed

Painted West End
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08/28/2012
Went to the dumps, bought a paint sprayer and materials. No
pictures.
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08/27/2012

Worked on bracing.
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08/26/2012

Clean up day, and built house for water heater.
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08/25/2012

South side soffet is up.
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08/24/2012

Started the south side soffet.
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08/23/2012

North side soffet up.
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08/22/2012

Canned some of the 49er peaches.

Worked on soffet.
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08/21/2012

100 % of sheet rock up, up stairs and stair well. It took
nine days to do carpentry, electrical, insulation and 51 sheets of rock.
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08/20/2012

Picked Peaches and a 25 lb watermelon. Worked in stair well.
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08/19/2012

Put wheels on scaffold to do soffet

worked on the stair well
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08/18/2012

95% of the rock is up
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08/17/2012

put down closet floor
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08/16/2012

3/4 of the sheet rock up.
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08/15/2012

Half of the sheet rock is up, upstairs.
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08/14/2012

One quarter of sheet rock up.
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08/13/2012

101° in the shade, Bees taking a breather outside the hive and over
30 trying to get back in.

Put up small pieces on north side.

Gutters are up.
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08/12/2012

Started sheet rock upstairs. Got last two pieces of tin up.
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08/11/2012

Replaced the sheeting under the window. It was removed to put
sheet rock up.
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08/10/2012

52 sheets upstairs and 43 sheets in the bedroom.
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08/09/2012

It is in the shadow, put small pieces of sheeting up at the top of
north wall.

insulate the attic
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08/08/2012

Karen checks out the new upstairs.
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08/07/2012

Tied ceiling truss to new truss.
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08/06/2012

Worked on back room.
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08/05/2012

East end gable covered.
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08/04/2012

Moved scaffold and started west end gable. 108.5° today.
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08/03/2012

West end gable covered.
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08/02/2012

Roof is on
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08/01/2012

Stairs in, one side of roofing done.
Happy Birthday Mom!

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