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You Realize You're a Beekeeper When...

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#1 ·
You feel bad about mowing the lawn because the dandelions are blooming. And when there's a flower being worked you gotta fight the urge to stop and wait or coax it away because its right in your path.

Any more?

[ April 19, 2006, 11:30 PM: Message edited by: wade ]
 
#27 ·
The school principal calls you when he finds a swarm hanging from the bleechers two hours before graduation.........

You call him back when the bees are in a box and ask where he wants his bees?

You drive out on a swarm call to discover its the home of some your students and they ask if you're not scared? You have to admit this is not half as bad as teaching at a high school.

This is my topper---the wife asks a passing be "Where's Tom" and she is lead right to me.
 
#32 ·
When you find yourself correcting anyone who mistakens yellow jackets for bees.

When you burn precious PTO days from work in the spring because weekends are full or rainy and Wednesday is going to be just beautiful for getting into the hives (and it was too!)
 
#36 ·
you feel pitiful when you have to eradicate a colony rather than destroy someones house, barn, fireplace, boat, etc...to remove them live.

your dogs salivate at the smell of honey on your clothes.

you spend as much time as you can afford and some you can't visting bee websights.
 
#42 ·
When "the girls" no longer means your wife and daughters.

When the first thing you do in the morning and when you get home in the evening is run down to the bee yard to check on the girls.
 
#43 ·
When you spend part of a Saturday morning in February sitting backwards on a muck tub in the back of a cart, pulled by hubby driving the lawn tractor, holding onto a walk-behind broadcast spreader, so you can frost seed 50# of alsike clover seed on the pasture before the snow starts.
 
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