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Bees

First, he brought out a bee box(cardboard). Then he scooped the bees up with the box. Then he let them settle down a bit. Then he closed the box and opened a little door on the bottom of the box. The bees inside stayed inside. The bees on the outside gradually found their way inside. Then he closed the box and took it away.
Our bees are bound for the Butterfly Pavilion. They will be part the the live bee exhibit: a hive inside with ports to the outside. The bees build their honeycomb inside and come and go as they please.

We’ll have to go visit them this spring.
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FW: bees

We’re having a bee encounter. They flew into our yard early this afternoon. We’re going to have Bee Rescue come take them to a better place to live, somewhere outside our yard.
We didn’t really lure them in with an orange. The orange is just for perspective.

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Trip

I’m getting so excited about our Creede trip.

We’ve broken Shamu out of winter retirement. The water lines have been flushed. The propane is full. Everything works.

Now we decided to leave a day early on Saturday, May 3d, so we can stop for the night at Sand Dunes National Monument, two hundred miles away. I love the Sand Dunes. We haven’t been there since the kids were little.

Then we get to go another hundred miles to the most beautiful town of Creede for a week. I get to work on just one job for a week. That’s practically like a vacation.

Then we get to leave on Friday and go find David for the bassinette exchange and a visit somewhere in the canyon lands.

Wow.
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Foot

My big toe is still sore, and I was in the neighborhood, so I stopped to consult with the doctor about it. All the bruising and swelling is gone now, so it looks normal. I just don’t walk normal. Every two or three days it starts to feel like it might be getting better, so I go play racquetball on it to test it. Of course that doesn’t help. I try to limit myself to standing at the back wall practicing shots, but other players tend to come by while I’m doing that and make me play them. So you see, it’s not really my fault.

The doctor says I didn’t break any of the larger bones in the toe, but that the bone gets pretty small out at the end. I probably broke the end off and it will take weeks to heal. She is such a good doctor. She didn’t even try to tell me not to exercise until it got better. Rather, she said when I play racquetball on it in six weeks, I’ll be aggravating it less than when I play racquetball on it now.