Seattle Bennett living in Colorado

so the hobby of beekeeping is starting to become quite expensive I started with 2 hives buying bees, suits, tools, and hives and then I thought to myself why not snag the two other wild hives we know of but it does give me a reason to use my dove tail jig and despite the 7 hours that I wasted making 4 out of 5 hive boxes the wrong size (reversed the jig) Friday night I now have nice shoe shelves/hidden hanger book shelves but Saturday in about 10 hours I knocked out 5 deep supers (where the queen lives and the bulk of the hive) and 5 shallow honey supers (where my honey is). so now I can get the 2 wild hives and still have an extra hive for a future capture. what Mindi didn't say was that when we opened our hives and started checking the honey we found that there was already 50-70 lbs and that was in less than a months worth of work for the bees so if things keep going at the same rate I could have between 150-200 lbs of honey with just the the 2 hives and by next year if I get all 4 preforming like my strong hive is I will have 600 lbs of honey or just over a hundred gallons. but there are 2 things you hear in beekeeping and that is "you get into it for the bees and out of it because of the honey" and the other is "next year will be better" so who knows but it is fun and Sierra and Kaia love it.