I decided to go ahead and harvest the honey from HIVE2 this evening, its a big hive and I'm only going to take 7 frames this year and leave them plenty. The bees were quite docile and didn't mind me being there. My next task is going to find a way to extract it, I don't have an extractor and I don't like the idea of destroying all the comb and putting it through a sieve so I need to think a little and see where that gets me.

I got 7 frames form HIVE2, I'm so happy with that. There is still the full bottom box and several frames in the top box.