Well, my girls are doing all right. I took 7 frames for extraction and got about 12 liters or so, maybe a bit more. Here's the 5 gallon (20L) pail. I use a kitchen strainer to get most of the cappings wax.
Another shot, a little blurry
Our honey jar on the counter was about half full, so we topped it up. You can see that the new honey on top is darker than the first-harvest honey below.
This honey is much more complex-tasting than the first. Different flowers in bloom, I guess. I plan to make a couple or three batches of mead with this honey, and doing a parallel experiment comparing wine yeast and ale yeast.
And, while I was working the bees today, I missed the emergence of one of the monarchs I've been watching. I did find the new butterfly below the empty chrysalis, though. The remaining one will probably emerge tomorrow. Pics here : http://imgur.com/a/ER82x