Finally got around to pulling the honey off of my four hives this weekend. Planned on maybe five shallow supers with one deep. Boys was I wrong, the girls had packed 6 1/2 shallows and three deep supers full of Florida's finest sweet stuff. Now I'm not complaining but lifting a deep super off of a tall hive can be a real challenge when they are loaded up with honey, they must weigh in over 100 lbs when full. Spent all Saturday afternoon and evening extracting the honey with a old Kelly extractor, it's the hand cranking model from around 1960. When all was done I was looking at 27 gallons of early summer honey, well worth the sore arms and stiff back from a long day working the bees. Only picked up one sting during cleanup so it's been a good harvest. Now it's time to start a 5 gallon batch or two of mead, maybe a melomel and a straight "Harvest" mead. How is everybody else doing with thier bees and extractions?