Speaking Of Bees

I was just mentioning the threat of bees during this extended dry, warm season. Today I found, in the gate that I go through a minimum of eight times every single day, a nest of wasps that had begun to form in the bottom tube of the gate.

My foot was inches away as I swung the gate wide to head out to the show barn when I noticed bees coming out of the worn tubing at the bottom of the gate. Mother Nature had rusted out the area and the bees had begun to take it over.

Mike came to my rescue and bombed the dickens out of the nest and the couple of nests that had started nearby under the eaves of the outdoor boiler and on the corner of the woodshed.

It is getting dangerous out there, but still nowhere near the amount of bees we had a couple of years ago.

{I have heard that some folks do not see the comments that I make back to people on their comments and I wanted to address this one particular question about why we cut up the apples for the cows…We cut up the apples because we have had past experiences with small, hard apples getting stuck in the throat of an animal. Rather than risk anyone choking, we cut up all the fruit. (And it is a perk to watch the critters salivate when we pull the knife out and start cutting!)

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