you will not bee-lieve this!

This morning

Brenden opened the door to go out to the garage.

Shut the door quickly and said,

"Mom, you will not believe this...look!"

Lo and behold, there was a SWARM of bees hovering over our recycle bag

of pop cans.

So he decided to gear up and move the bag of cans outside,

in order to draw the bees out of the garage.

Good idea!

Except that he chickened out.

(You can't see the bees in the pic, darn it...but trust me, there were hundreds of them!)

Which meant only one thing.

Wait for K-Man to get home and take care of it.

Or I would have to go out and take care of it.

Okay, that's two things.

Well...you know me,

I decided to handle the whole thing myself.

It's these opportunities I've learned to seize,

for personal growth and for good blog posts.

I grabbed a small laundry net bag thingy

and put it over my head.

Then covered every square inch of the rest of me.

My lovely make-shift bee-keeper costume.

Here I am gathering all the cans that had fallen out of the bag.

Another angle, for your observation.

A close-up, for your entertainment.

And that's that.

Once again, Lori saves the day.

beaver, chuy, and beekeeping

Do you remember that episode of

Leave it to Beaver

where Beaver has that Spanish-speaking friend, Chuy?

And Beaver and Chuy have a play-date and neither

one of them can understand each other...

but they are having all kinds of fun, despite the language barrier

until Beaver decides to try out a Spanish phrase that he

thought he knew...

but in reality he said,

"You have a pig face."

And Chuy started crying and it was a big ol'

lost-in-translation mess?

Remember that?

Well,

something like that is going to happen here today.

Eli is going on his first "play-date" with a friend at school.

And Eli's English is still pretty awful.

Oh how I wish I could be a fly on the wall with my video camera.

It would fit nicely into an episode of my reality show in-the-making.

I'm not really making a reality show, though I really should.

And completely unrelated to that,

do any of you raise honeybees?

Let me know if you do.

That's my next big project.

I buy local raw honey and it seems ridiculous that

I don't just have my own.

But I have questions.

I hope you have answers.