Happy New Years!

I hope everyone has had an enjoyable Holiday season!

As we do every year to welcome the new year, all the decorations from

Christmas are put away, the house has been cleaned from

top to bottom, all the excess has been donated to the needy, the fridge is full

& all the chores are done.

... exactly the way you want the rest of the year to be...

A friend posted on her blog about the top ten things of 2010,

thought it was a great idea so here goes:

1. Being shown over and over why my husband is the best!

2. New business plan and employees.

3. Finished all the dogs in the house

4. New Friends!

5. Started the plans for a spring litter

6. Got rid of all the junk!!

7. Learned a ton about bees

8. Won the Dane Specialty

9. Had a blast in Calgary

10. Discovering icanhasbheezburger.com

New Look

I got some colour!

I figured it was high time to get 'creative', I do it to the dogs all the time,

the way it's dyed males it hide-able...

Or punky...

Trailer Park Trash

I'm sure that this is Darcy's new attempt to drive me crazy, but if you were to ask him I'm sure he'd deny it and then giggle maniacally!!

So he decided that he wants nothing in the garage and it all ends up in the front yard/drive...

Jody (our neighbour) brought over his big hoe to help - can you see Darcy on top of the canister?

Darcy taking a ride in the bucket!

We bucked it out and look! No more Trailer Park Trash!!

The few things that you see have to go to recycling, so they can't be moved just yet, but I can live with that. Can you see the truck shaped space we got now that the canister is moved?

Here is our burn pile!

Honey collecting!

The Honey Flows!

... even artistically!

uncapping the honey

Look how full the extractor is! It makes me laugh that this was the part that we couldn't get the boys to move away from!! Especially Tony!

More uncapping

Looks like we collected just under 5 gallons! Yeah!

Getting Excited!

On August 15th we are going to be collecting and spinning down the frames of honey!!

And although this sounds amazingly fun, bees are very protective of all their hard work over the spring and summer, making this the most likely time to get stung!

FYI: If you get stung, put a penny on the Bee-bite-is (sting mark) and the swelling and pain will be greatly reduced.

I will post pictures of our escapades on Sunday, it should be interesting to say the least!

The New Logo!

Okay so for those of you you haven't heard the news, we have bees!

I love it, it's something that Darcy and I do together. Plus I get to learn new things (which I love doing - what can I say, I'm geeky that way!).

I can't remember who asked what we would call our bee adventure, at the time I shrugged it off and said I will always stick with "MiHi".

But anyone who knows me, knows that I ruminate, so this is just what I did.

A friend of mine always teases me and pronounces my kennel name as Me-He,

instead of My High, and although I love him dearly, it irks me to no end. For whatever reason I had that floating around my head when I came up with Mi Hive, but all I could think of was that he referred to it as "Me Hive" he would sound like a strange pirate!

So there it is, the new logo for the Apiary side of MiHi, hope you like it!

I also make all natural lip balm & lipstick (customized colour for you), moisturizer, shampoo & conditioner (for humans and dogs) and anything else you can think of with

honey or beeswax in it!

We also have honey, bee-bubblegum, chocolate covered combed honey, and honey garlic glaze.

Mad Scientist Part 2

Every mad scientist needs their muse, mine is Pepsi! I believe that if you look in the last post you will see my glass in the photos as well!

All my supplies

Darcy laughed at me for several minutes about my organization of the product, but I'd rather know what I used and in what order then just guessing!

Here is the colour that I concocted!! Bronzed Earth is what I'm calling it - unless someone comes up with something better.

It's bronze mica mixed with Earth oxide.

Now it's poured into the containers, cooling and then off for testing!

Of course testing just means whom ever I can con into putting it on their lips - ssshhhh, don't tell anyone I made it!