Once again I am down to my last three jars of honey,* so it is time to get another couple of batches liquified and bottled.
First task of the day was to set a 5lb batch of honey to warm in a water bath. It takes a couple of hours for the honey to liquify, so 30% and I headed out for a short walk with the dogs.
As we wandered alongside the ploughed fields, our eyes fell upon numerous rounded river stones** lying in and on the furrows. We both thought that these would be fantastic in our, soon to be built, water feature.
Basically the plan is to use our stone trough*** as a sump. A fountain pump will be installed in the trough, and we will then install a perforated shelf, just below the lip of the trough. The shelf will support a layer of these rounded stones, and a fountain jet will then bubble water over the them ... Well, that's the idea!
It's a great idea, but I wish that we had brought something suitable to carry a collection of large stones back to the house!
The honey bottling required my attention, on and off, throughout the day, so I filled my time with odd jobs. The most significant of these was to recharge the batteries in the security cameras.
So that was Saturday, replenishing the stall and stealing stones.
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* One of those is a jar of set honey, so that will sit out on the stall, ignored, for weeks.
** The soil around here is a rich red clay containing plenty of rounded river stones ranging from small pebbles to rocks larger than my fist. It is clear that this is a soil that has its origins in a water course, as evidenced by the abundance of smooth round stones. We are situated in the South West Midlands and it is possible that these soils were produced by glacial rivers at the end of the ice age.
*** Now tested, and found to be water tight.
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