Bee Initiation

After months of back and forth with Hilary the bee girl (The Girl Next Door Honey) and trying to schedule a good day to get our bees, they have arrived!  At 8:30 Friday night, Hilary drove up in her white Prius, filled with bee supplies and two bee hives, and the first thing she said as she walked up was…”we have a bit of a problem.” Not the first thing I’d necessarily want to hear from the bee expert, but OK.  Apparently she had what she called a “bee leak.”  Bees had escaped and had clumped onto the side of their hive.  In her car.  While she was driving.  

First of all, I can’t believe that she had driven almost an hour to get to my house from Imperial Beach (where the hive had been residing) with two hives in her back seat -- but with a leak too!  This woman is made of steel...my admiration for her as a badass beekeeper has skyrocketed.  

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