Last week I began making more bee boxes for this upcoming spring. I also had a couple of supers from last year that were in need of being re-painted.

While I was going through a pile of supers waiting to be re-painted I found this one where the bees has put propolis on the inside of the super, following along the wood grain pattern.



I wonder if they didn't like the tiny recessions in the grain and decided to fill it in flush with the surface of the surrounding wood?

I also spent some time this week building frames to go into the new boxes. Garrison (the self proclaimed "middle child") wanted to help.



He got to apply glue himself, but I told him I was going to help with the nail gun (we'd been to the doctor's offices too many times recently for a nail-gun-related trip to be added to the list).



Once the glue was dried, he even helped paint the boxes.



It made for a pretty great afternoon.