My cat Bishop sits outside my door every morning once she hears the alarm clock go off.
The morning murps
Skeleton Frolics by Ub Iwerks (January 29, 1937)
Some of you were curious about the honey process
Well, I’m here to show you what these wonderful little ladies make, and how us humans collect the extra.
Some Vocabulary:
This is a Langstroth beehive. Those boxes in it are called “Supers”. Supers hold 10 frames each. Frames look like this.
I’m here to teach you about honey extraction from this particular kind of hive, and when you only have like 5 or 6.
The Process:
First, we start with the frame of honey.
Notice anything? The bees have “capped” this honey with beeswax so it can keep for the winter! (or beekeep heheh)
So what you wanna do is cut those bad boys off with ya Hot Knife.
(Or you can just scrape them off with a fork. Or poke holes in them. Dealer’s choice, man.)
Next, you put your uncapped frames in the Crazy Spin Cylinder. (The Extractor)
And YA CRANK IT
And the honey sp i n s
Honey GO
H O N E Y
The frames are spun at such a high speed that the honey is pulled right out!
Next, you open the spigot at the bottom, run it through a strainer…
Pour it in a jar…
and VOILA!
Beautiful Bee Nectar that you got yaself! This has been a PSA
This is my favorite episode of How It’s Made.
I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth
Or, as my dad put it,
Sympathy: I know how you feel
Empathy: I feel how you feel
Compassion: is there anything I can do to help?
Sympathy: that sucks bro
empathy: I feel that
compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?
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