My bee sting is settling down and I can bend my elbow again. I finally figured out that a combination of the homeopathic bee remedy, lots of advil and smears of arnica gel on the swollen area make it so instead of ten days of itching and painful swelling, I get three days of swelling, very little pain and no itch! Magic medicine.

I screwed up on the honey filtering the other day and contaminated about a gallon of honey with water from the anti-ant bucket that the whole contraption was sitting in overnight. It seeped in through the gate valve at the bottom of the bucket. Either it is not watertight or I did not screw the valve shut hard enough. Either way, now I have a gallon of watery honey. I am going to feed it back to the bees as soon as I can get one of those goofy feeders that looks like a mayonnaise jar turned upside down and screwed to a wooden platform. I still can't figure out how sugar water or honey won't just flow out due to that thing called gravity, but somehow it works.