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They put me in my proper place

laura — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:29:40 +0000

All these little tiny bundles of energy are just buzzing around and leaving the yard and I don’t have a clue where they’re going. I can’t follow them and see what six mile distance they’ve gone. But they come back to this home unerringly and bring this gift from the flowers back with them and they work so hard to do it that they just humble me.

- Suzanne Connolly Howes

It’s fun, getting a swarm

laura — Mon, 09 May 2011 21:55:10 +0000

I remember I picked up a swarm of bees over here in the neighborhood a couple of years ago… At night I had to come home dragging the garden cart with my bees suit on. My bee suit is made for a taller person than I am and the neighbors looked at me, they thought I was becoming senile, but I got my swarm of bees!

- Marge McLellan

Blows my mind

laura — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:00:06 +0000

During the spring and summer the queen lays up to 2000 eggs a day. It’s just mind boggling that an animal that is born with all the eggs she’s going to lay in her life can lay 2000 eggs a day and can live for five years! I mean, that’s a huge, massive amount of eggs! There are just so many things like that about bees and each little piece of information like that just blows my mind.

- Suzanne Connolly Howes

Watching

laura — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Sometimes I go out there and sit by myself with my son and watch the bees bringing in their pollen and flying in and out… It’s always nice to be around animals. I want my children to grow up around animals and this is just the beginning of that.

- Mery Molenaar

Methodical, patient and slow

laura — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:00:04 +0000

I tend to be able to get things done in a hurry, and that works for me, but beekeeping is an activity that I think is going to teach me patience because otherwise you just waste time.

- Patricia Butler

Honey, honey, honey, honey, honey…

laura — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 13:00:00 +0000

More honey, honey, honey, honey, honey…

- Suzanne Connolly Howes

I just like it more all the time

laura — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:00:39 +0000

The more you know about it don’t you think you like it more?

- Marge McLellan

They’re pretty easy pets

laura — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:07:19 +0000

I’ve always been interested in nature and this is just a great way of being together with animals. They’re pretty easy pets. They’re really easy pets, actually. And you have a lot of them.

- Mery Molenaar

Patience

laura — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:05:32 +0000

One of the things I think I’ll learn from this hobby is more patience. I just want to do it right and there doesn’t seem to be an easy way! It takes experience and exposure and patience.

- Patricia Butler

They’re alive!

laura — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:01:02 +0000

Maybe, now that I think about it, there’s something spiritual about being out there with those bees… You really see there’s something controlling things, you know. And they’re alive! That’s my definition of spirituality, to be alive and get involved. You sense that in nature, don’t you?

- Marge McLellan

They’re helping each other

laura — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:43:35 +0000

When a bee comes back to the hive she doesn’t put the honey in the comb herself, she gives it to somebody else, then another bee will process it or put it away. They share things. They live together. They’re helping each other.

- Mery Molenaar

People are odd animals

laura — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:21:31 +0000

When I first started keeping bees I was giving honey away. I got the feeling after a year or so that I’d walk into a room and people would say, “Oh, here she comes with her honey.” So I decided I’m not going to do that anymore and started charging for it. As soon as I started charging, “Oh! Where’s your honey?” I don’t know why humans are that way but they are. If you charge a little tiny bit for it, they want it.

– Marge McLellan

You simply have to experience it

laura — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:53:47 +0000

What I’ve found expecially interesting and difficult is just understanding the bees, beginning to become comfortable with their rhythms and of course, having them comfortable with me, things you can’t really teach. There’s a great deal of this activity that you simply have to experience.

- Patricia Butler

My whole reason for bees

laura — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:23:16 +0000

It’s funny how many beekeepers I’ve met and talked to recently who don’t actually eat very much honey. And I don’t eat very much honey.

My whole reason for bees is more because I love bees and I want to have a place for them and I love having them in my backyard. I just love… I LOVE calling myself a beekeeper… So I don’t need to be really aggressive about having a huge harvest from them.

- Suzanne Connolly Howes

Benevolence

laura — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:07:36 +0000

When you take the lid off of that box there’s a kind of benevolence that comes from it… you know, just the amount of food they make, their generosity… is really kind of astounding. They’re just so sisterly and I think that really comes through in their work and in their presence and in their energy.

- Julie Finley

When you’re right next to a tree

laura — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:31:05 +0000

This spring our pussy willow was blooming and it was covered, completely covered with bees… And it was beautiful. At that point they were so busy getting the pollen… that they weren’t bothering me at all. It’s different from being in the hive. If you open up their hive they can get made at you. They’ll buzz around you and try and bug you to get you out of there. But when you’re right next to a tree with a lot of bees they’re so busy doing their work that they don’t bother you at all.

- Mery Molenaar

Who keeps whom?

laura — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:18:17 +0000

I’m a beekeeper. Um hmm… The bees keep me.

– Marge McLellan

The gardener

laura — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:17:56 +0000

I’m a gardener. I came to the bees from the garden, you know, just wanted to know more about pollination. I don’t ever remember not wanting to keep bees.

- Julie Finley