Death by Malice 10 by Abigail Keam

Author:Abigail Keam
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Mystery, Kentucky
ISBN: 9780997972900
Publisher: Worker Bee Press
Published: 2019-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

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I put the entire unpleasant incident behind me. I was busy harvesting honey. It took me two days to harvest the honey and another day to extract the honey from the frames.

I hate extracting honey from the honeycomb. It’s a messy, sticky business. Plus all the bees smell the honey, and are constantly banging against the windows of the honey house, trying to gain access to honey–their honey.

To get bees away from the honey house, I put the empty frames out in a field for them to clean the honey residue and take it back to the hives. Worked like a charm.

Now the honey was harvested, I needed to strain it, getting out all the bits of combs and other bee debris still in it. Some customers like bee debris left in the honey, thinking it makes the honey more beneficial, but I don’t.

I like a clean-looking honey. I don’t mind microscopic bits of pollen and beeswax, but I don’t like seeing stuff with the naked eye, even though honey never goes bad because of the hydrogen peroxide in it. That’s right–hydrogen peroxide. The bees make it.

Aren’t honeybees fabulous!

Honey never goes bad, even when it crystallizes. Only Americans insist on eating honey in its liquid form. Other cultures eat honey in its crystallized state, or after it’s been whipped into a butter-like paste.

After spending the entire day in the honey house, I made my way back to the Butterfly, wanting nothing more than a hot shower and something to eat.

Low and behold, a red Avanti was in my driveway. Walter Neff was back in town.

I had sent him to Charleston, South Carolina, where Sandy Sloan mentioned she had kinfolk.

Walter must have something to report.

I hurried to the house.

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