Jarring news

After the stirring news of the honey harvest, this next piece of news is slightly jarring: with little time to spare during any day past or coming, I used an hour that was lying around today with nothing urgent to do and used it to jar the honey. Richard from the kitchens (once again, the benefits of a school environment!) was a great help, wiping the glasses free of honey. This was very necessary, as the bucket was dribbling and splurting honey from all places it shouldn't as well as the main tap.

The big surprise of the day was that I ran out of jars. With quite a bit of honey still left in the bucket, I was forced to close operations, as I had nowhere to put the honey. Today's tally was 122 jars, with more to come. Wow! When you think that this was all collected by the little, little bees, it does make you pause in awe. Well, it did and does me.

First thing I did after storing the jars in safe place and de-sticking my fingers was to order more jars, so I can get the rest of the harvest safely contained.

A field of honey jars

This year's honey is slightly lighter than last year's one, which may have to do with the mixing in of the spring nectar, and, to my taste buds, also not quite as sweet, though still as florally fragrant.