What A Buzzy Day...

Calm before the STORM,

I am wondering what kind of day is awaiting. The newest buzzing episode, after a rather productive spring. Well... Catching several of our honey bee swarms made it "seem" productive, even though we've not had a lick of honey yet. We did have the exception of Mary Queen of Honey Pots - Dethroning herself from our "court yard" and taking a VERY large entourage of honey workers with here (ouch!) I was looking forward to possibly even having some '"homemade" honey to share as gifts for Christ-mas. The little buzzing varmints of course, took all their little "suitcases" could hold of the precious liquid gold !!

YELLOW JACKETS...

The biggest buzz on the horizon, is no doubt going to be an explosion of the mean faces and repeating stingers of the yellow jackets. Now you are probably wondering what on earth that means? Have you seen the Disney movie with Pooh Bear and his honey attempts?? Where he and all his friends plug up the bee hive and it explodes in activity???? Umm... I have this sick feeling...

Ta da! The one eyed pirate, thought he had a clever idea to solve our yellow jacket problem. Umm... Do you know what a yellow jacket problem is ??? Do you want to know ???? Well it doesn't matter 'cause if you read this you'll know anyway :-)

Take a rather entrepreneurial yellow jacket... queen? Somehow it doesn't seem fitting to call them a queens. Royalty they do not seem to reflect. Well perhaps the sort of royalty like the Queen of Hearts in Alice in Wonderland... "off with their ----'-!" Perhaps the yellow jacket's "mantra" is, "Lets let 'em have it and keep our stingers intact for repeated 'fire'!" Yow !!!!

Ok, ok. I digressed a bit.... Back to the one eyed pirate. Clever boy - he decided... (Granny with a lot of apprehensive questions and hesitations to support his decision...Well as I was SAYING ,ahem....) He decided to spray them with hornet killer really fast :-) and seal them up with this nifty seam caulker thingy. Didn't sound so cool to me, but well, what's a Granny to do, but smile and wait?

Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, I think I will be dreaming about the mounting pressure in the sealed vault of angry yellow jackets. Now who do you think will be doing the chores tomorrow a.m. where the little vaulted missiles are pressurizing while the one-eyed pirate is happily mixing chemicals or something of the sort at work ????

Now perhaps if Granny had more faith in the hornet killer ???? So far (at least for her) the little buzzing varmints have seemed to slurp the stuff happily and build a bigger nest even stronger. Perhaps the stuff is creating a new wave of super jackets ?

I am relieved granny kept her thoughts to herself. She usually expresses such ideas rather a lot. Perhaps she can avoid eating humble pie, IF the pirate is right....

Now perhaps this story makes up for the 'Don't Bzzzz Me I'm Rather Busy' post that my computer ate. How did it print the title and not the story ???