A Beautiful Day to work in my Shop!

We are still in the depths of Winter here in Eastern Washington State.  As I drove in, there was a blizzard with lots of snow coming down. 

Winter STILL has it's hold on things here!

It was just me and my two canine buddies going up.   They love to go but typically 'over do' it by running and playing so hard that that crash later.

In the wood shop, I spent the bulk of the time building 2 frame 'breeder nuclei' boxes for raising queens.  This year, I had some outstanding survivor colonies that I want to raise some queens from.  Local queens are very good and those colonies tend to be rather better adapted for our weather and environment conditions.
The box on the top - is a 4 frame Nuc box for our efforts in California.  I hope to have over a 100 of these for next year.

All built with locally supplied ponderosa or what is called 'yellow' pine here.

Breeder Nuclei

On a side note, I've been building a 'tiny home' office for our place this year, and as the day progressed the sun came out and the fresh snow had melted.

Late Afternoon Sunset light

At the same time, my 'helpers' crashed in front of the Wood Stove.  Sound Asleep. 
It was a wonderful day.