Bugging Out for the Weekend

[emo_snal]

   Just as I pulled into my driveway Friday, my friend Mick pulled up in front of the house. He had had business in nearby Colac. Mick works as a "machine programmer" for a laser etching company. I haven't been to his work but I picture it as some wild sci fi scene with lasers shooting everywhere. I always have very interesting conversations with

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[halfshellvenus]

What, no tag for the gratuitous picture of your gorgeous kitty friend?

How's your record for being stung by wasps and hornets when you're in their vicinity? Yellow jackets are drawn to me, so I would never intentionally visit them. ;)

[emo_snal]

I seem to have a remarkable ability I'm not sure I can quite explain to get bees to land on my hand. When I was on a hike in the mountains of Uganda I got three different native bees to pose on my hand for photos .... and of course all the photos were lost with my phone ): ):

I've only been stung by wasps once though. It was funny this weekend, thinking the things under the bridge were bees, and therefore stingless since I think all native bees in this area area, I popped up from around the bridge with my face right in front of them and was like ..."SHIT THOSE ARE WASPS" as they all took off ...... but fortunately didn't sting me!

Incidentally yellow jackets are mentioned in the above entry... they are the mentioned Vespula germanica, known here as "European wasps"

[pundigrion]

I'm pretty sure I could read pretty endlessly about rolling eucalyptus covered hills swarming in goanna!

At least no one has gotten bored with my years of posting about Niagara Escarpment, which we just looks like "anywhere SW Ontario"

[pigshitpoet]

wow, a beekeeper. a friend of mine keeps bees. i benefit from the honey because that's all i use for sweetener. i'm allergic to refined sugar, flour and dairy, at the look of it, anything man-made.. )))
nothing exists man-made that doesn't already exist in nature! and we seem to think we can improve upon it, until we ruin it. duh.
yes, by all means, please keep those bees happy, my life depends on them!
g'day mate!
; )

[emo_snal]

Whenever people ask what I do and I say I'm a beekeeper, they always of course look surprised, and so I say "someone's gotta do it" ;)

[pigshitpoet]

don't worry, bee happy!
; )