The offending gray "light house" bird house with FPC birdhouse with golden rooster in the foreground
Don’t get me wrong. I really do love nature and that is exactly why I became involved in this organic gardening venture to begin with. But, like everything else, there are limits.
It all began with a beautiful, pyramidal, cedar trellis topped off with a perfectly weathered, symmetrical birdhouse. Just imagine the pea plants stretching up 5-6 feet and those ripened edible pea pods hanging down just ready to be picked. How perfect is that!?
At last, the moment I’ve been waiting for. One, two, three pods plucked and dropped into my burlap grocers’ bag. Then, BAM! Smacked in the nose. What was that? Stinging, swelling_OH CRAP_ it’s a BEE. No wait_ more bees…shooing them away…. more bees…. another sting… the neck this time_ the face again…. the neck….I rip off my hat and jump out of the garden with arms swinging like a madman. Running as fast as possible down the garden path while tearing off my sweatshirt, thinking, “Are they chasing me? Am I crazy? Can I jump over this stupid chicken wire fence without tripping? Will I make it to my truck?”
Phew_ safe in my truck.
Well, I have to say that I’m no longer “feeling the love”. What ever happened to that “stress reducing” hobby anyway?
But, (fortunately) with the generous and skillful help of The New Eden Garden’s very own beekeeper, Will Graves, the bees were evicted. I’m now taking applications in hopes that the new tenants will be birds: Who would have thought.
Sandy
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