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.
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.
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!)
even before I kept bees I used to "ticklestart" bumblebees in the mornings to get them going after a cool night on a flower. I knew then I was destined to be a beekeeper ( although my wife said I was jusr plain nuts)
You're in a new neighborhood and notice a beautiful crabapple tree in full bloom but you're looking to see how many bees are working it so that you might have another good place to put a swarm box.
When you find yourself in Paris France and you don't have time to visit the bees at the botanical gardens, and you decide you'll have to make a return visit just to check out French bees.
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.
When bike riding, you use your arm to signal a turn, and your wife blows past you into an intersection thinking you had just been pointing at someone's bee hives.
You spend more each year on bee equipment, meds etc...., than you'll ever make in honey sales.
then tell the wife, we should make this back "next year".
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