Mr. Curly is raising bees. Yeah. Yeah, you read that right. He has a few videos on youtube (or at least is working on getting them up there) calling himself the ignorant bee keeper.
Here's how it all went down:
We have some friends who noticed a lot of bee activity outside their house. And then a buzzing in the walls. And then stains leaking through the old lathe & plaster walls (they live in an old farm house a little bit out of town).
They had to abandon a room due to the bees.
So Mr. Curly did a lot of studying and researching, built a hive with his dad, and went and pulled bees out of the walls and floors and ceiling. They were EVERYWHERE.
But now the house is bee free, and we have lots of honey and beeswax to use.
Somehow, there was no queen (this swarm had split once before and we think something traumatic happened to any new queen they would've had), so we bought one. Who even knew you could do that?!
The kids are FASCINATED by the bees. They repeat the rules to me often - be quiet, be slow - and then go sneak up to the hive and the observation window to see what they can see.
Honestly, they give me the hee-bee-jee-bees (hahahahahaha).
But, bees, yeah, we raise them now.
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