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"You just might be a beekeeper."

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#1 ·
If all of your clean bluejeans have propolis stains on them, you just might be a beekeeper.
If the bottoms of your socks have propolis stains on them, you just might be a beekeeper.
If it is Sunday morning and rainy and you find yourself on the way to the beeyard and not to Church, you just might be a beekeeper.
 
#30 ·
If you drive 16 hours round trip to meet up with a stranger so you can pick up a nuc of a certain breed of bee you just have to have...

If you spend your Saturday night making Bee Fudge (a.k.a. Candy Boards) instead of going out...
 
#39 ·
...if you are devising a way to install a spit inside your bee smoker that winds a rotation spring when you puff the bellows, you might be a beekeeper (and you might be hungry as well).
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#45 ·
You might bee a beekeeper if...

...It becomes very routine to get bee jokes from people on a regular basis when they find out you have bees.
... when honey carmel is your favrotie ice cream,
.....when most of what your read for fun is about bees
.....Your friends are not suprised to see a copy of bee sex essentials sitting in your bag
....your extended cab pick up only really holds two people becuase there is a bunch of bee equipt. in the back seat.
 
#47 ·
Your favorite phone call, the one where you dance a little jig after you hang up, is the one when someone calls and says, "I have a bee problem..."

Your favorite vacation stop is the bee supply store.

Your grandkids come over and say "it smells like honey in here" (vs cookies)

Your favorite conversations are with another beekeeper
 
#51 ·
If you planed your own wedding to coincide with the end of the bee season...
(which I did, Oct 15)

If most of your personal library are bee books and you buy every edition of a bee book you come across...

If you baost about how high your honey supers were stacked on your hives the way fishermen talk about the size of fish they caught...

If your beeyards are in emaculate shape but your own yard is 3 feet of grass... (and claim you needed to let the dandilions grow for the bees)

If you watch ulees gold every year on a regular basis in janurary for the bee scenes because you miss your bees and maybe even get a little tear in the corner of your eye during those scenes...
 
#53 ·
If you always have matches in your pocket, but you never buy cigars, cigarettes or pipe tobacco, you just might be a beekeeper.

If you wear a suit to work, but it has a hood and zips up the front, you just might be a beekeeper.
 
#62 ·
Bee Bliss, so sorry for the loss of your Dad. There is something healing about emptying some of the sorrow out by telling the bees. Nice to hear that someone was taught something about the "old ways". Best wishes, Roger
 
#63 ·
If you can't carry groceries in the back of the truck because it is sticky, and you can't fit groceries in the trunk of the old Cadillac because it is full of veils, gloves, and sugar, you might be a beekeeper.

If there's a 5 gallon bucket of honey sitting on your kitchen counter, you're probably a bachelor beekeeper.

And if your 2 car garage resembles a hive manufacturing facility with barely room to move, you know you are a beekeeper.
 
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