Count the honey at the end of the season, not after one good afternoon.

A good afternoon proves nothing about a season. Judging anything by its best day gives you a flattering number and no information, because the point of a season is that it contains the bad weeks too. Counting early is also how people talk themselves out of continuing, since a single poor stretch feels like proof when it is only weather. The total is the one honest figure.

Pick your real measuring point, the end of the term or the season, and look away from the daily score. Keep a simple record meanwhile. Count once, properly, when it is over.