Reconfiguration successful!

I went into #1 with the plan to reconfigure.  My aesthetic sense was violated by the unusual set-up.  I expected the few brood I had last seen in the top box to have emerged and I could just remove the top box. Simple.
I brought over an empty box to hold the frames as I worked through them and put it on a work table.
The first few frames were either empty comb or a bit of honey.  Then there was some brood, honey and pollen and then, much to my surprise, I saw the queen, fat and golden.  I had been moving the frames into the empty box, but there was nothing under it.  I went back to the shed, dug around and retrieved a telescoping top that inverted and placed the empty box on.  Then I carefully moved the frame with the queen into the box, keeping my eye on her.  I selected four frames with brood, some resources and the queen to move into the bottom deep. 
After lifting off the medium, I went through the deep to find four frames to remove.  Two were easy to select- black comb, no honey or pollen.  For the other two, I found frames that were drone brood and larvae (I could tell by the size of the cells) and some nectar and pollen.  These would be sacrificed.

This is one of the frames.  You can see the scattered capped drone brood as well as some larvae (bright white in the upper-right quadrant).
I got the four frames into the bottom box, once again being very careful with the queen.  Voila!  A normal looking hive.
I scraped the old comb and sprayed B.T. onto the six I will keep and use again.  I looked at some of the capped drones and saw no mites.  Good news, but taken with a grain of salt as none of them were at the purple-eyed stage. This is when one usually finds the mites.

Split not made, swarm not trapped

A week ago I went to make a split from Olea's.  The plan was to get two frames with pollen and honey from #1 and get a frame with eggs and two with capped brood from Olea's.  These five frames would go into a nuc.  There the bees would raise a new queen from the eggs. 
I collected everything I needed including wires with which to hold the top bar combs to the Langstroth holders and a work table to hold the nuc.  Smoked #1 and went in.  Alas...
There was very little brood in the top box and only one frame with nectar and pollen.  I put this frame into the nuc.  Then I looked into the bottom box (did not check the medium box).  There were no frames with food to take but there was some brood.  It looks likeh the queen has moved downwards.  I briefly considered removing the top deep box, move the frames with brood into the bottom box and have a hive with a single deep brood with mediums for the rest.  However, it would have been too much to do and not in today's plan.  (Avoid impulse beekeeping!)  I figured I would do that another day- probably today.  So-
I would have to get resources from Olea's as well as eggs and brood to make a total of five frames for the split.Going through all the bars of a top bar is a lot of work as each comb needs to be cut away from the box.  There was brood in the the second bar, all drone.  The queen was on one of the first bars.  She is quite dark.  There were no eggs and no resources, bar after bar.  Finally, in mid-box, a frame with eggs and larvae.  But these were drone-sized cells and some capped drone brood.  These eggs would not a queen make.  I did not find worker brood until 4 bars from the end.  No eggs.  I gave up trying to make a split and closed up.  I did find the brood area odd; drone at one end of the box and worker at the other end.  I wonder if there might be two queen in the hive.
Olea's hive is filling up with bees and I keep adding new bars.  Today I but all 22 bars into Olea's.  Twice, once a few weeks ago and again today, the bees had built comb on the follower board.

Comb cut off follower three weeks ago

Comb on follower today

Comb on follower today

There has been on and off activity around the swarm traps, but nobody has moved in yet.