Yeah so it has been a while. I guess I've been pretty busy. Yesterday for the first time in months, maybe even years, I came to the point of having done everything that I needed to do. What a relief! I even took a nap. I never take naps because I always spend them thinking about the things that I should be doing instead. Last night when I was trying to sleep I realized the other reason that I don't take naps, because I can't sleep at night if I sleep during the day. So now, I am exhausted from a poor night's sleep and I must stay awake for a while to break the cycle. Sounds like the perfect time to blog. I hope you can wade through this delirius rambling without too much pain.
So I have a story about bees. I don't mind bugs too much. I try to avoid them, but I'm not one of those girls who is on top of her chair at the sight of a roach. I guess that come from growing up in Asia. Bugs were kind of just a way of life. Anyway, I have seen pretty much every type of creature at my workplace. We had spiders, an invasion of crickets, mice, and our latest visitors were a swarm of bees.
I came into work on Monday and the railing on the handicap ramp was totally covered with bees. I have never seen so many bees concentrated in one place so close to me. My company is a "green" company so we couldn't call the exterminator. Our facilities people at headquarters contacted a beekeeper who said he could come move the queen and that the rest would follow. Although he said that they were migrating and that they would probably leave on their own in 24 hours.
My dilemma was that I had an event that required everyone to be outside under a huge tent relatively close to the bees the next day. Besides that, one of our employee's ex-husbands had died from an allergic reaction to bee stings not even a week earlier. Do I take the chance that they leave on their own (to which I was very skeptical) or do I get them taken care of? They had been first noticed at 4:00 the previous day and so if they weren't gone by 3:00 we would get the bee keeper to move them.
My boss came and interupted a meeting at 3:00 to let us know that the bees had left at exactly 3:00. At 3:05 the pest control person showed up to find 5 bees and a railing covered in honey. Apparently they were honey bees like we had been told and they were migrating (hopefully far away). We guessed around 500 bees, but the bee expert said that a fist equals about 1,000 bees so we probably had 20,000 bees. My skin crawls thinking about that. Well, now they're gone. Now if getting rid of the mice was that easy.
So I have a story about bees. I don't mind bugs too much. I try to avoid them, but I'm not one of those girls who is on top of her chair at the sight of a roach. I guess that come from growing up in Asia. Bugs were kind of just a way of life. Anyway, I have seen pretty much every type of creature at my workplace. We had spiders, an invasion of crickets, mice, and our latest visitors were a swarm of bees.
I came into work on Monday and the railing on the handicap ramp was totally covered with bees. I have never seen so many bees concentrated in one place so close to me. My company is a "green" company so we couldn't call the exterminator. Our facilities people at headquarters contacted a beekeeper who said he could come move the queen and that the rest would follow. Although he said that they were migrating and that they would probably leave on their own in 24 hours.
My dilemma was that I had an event that required everyone to be outside under a huge tent relatively close to the bees the next day. Besides that, one of our employee's ex-husbands had died from an allergic reaction to bee stings not even a week earlier. Do I take the chance that they leave on their own (to which I was very skeptical) or do I get them taken care of? They had been first noticed at 4:00 the previous day and so if they weren't gone by 3:00 we would get the bee keeper to move them.
My boss came and interupted a meeting at 3:00 to let us know that the bees had left at exactly 3:00. At 3:05 the pest control person showed up to find 5 bees and a railing covered in honey. Apparently they were honey bees like we had been told and they were migrating (hopefully far away). We guessed around 500 bees, but the bee expert said that a fist equals about 1,000 bees so we probably had 20,000 bees. My skin crawls thinking about that. Well, now they're gone. Now if getting rid of the mice was that easy.
