My Girls Have Arrived!

I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was today, all day! It started when I received a telephone call at around 10 this morning from Geneva Miller, who “was just calling to let [me] know that [my] bees had arrived safe and sound and that [I could] come pick them up anytime before 8 this evening.” The entire day, I couldn’t wait to finish work and drive to pick up my girls, all 30,000 of them (30,000 since I was also picking up my friend’s order as well)

For starters, I arrived at the Bee Supply and I was soooo anxious and nervous, because I couldn’t wait to see how my bees looked, what they were doing, how they were going to react and what they were going to sound like. I was utterly shocked! No buzz . . . No high-pitched kazoo-like vibrations, NADA! Just a faint and steady hum of almost deafening proportions was all I heard coming from the two little boxes of wire and wood. “I thought bees were supposed to be loud!?” is what I asked the gentleman, Edward, who was helping me carry them to my car. “Well, it actually goes tuh show ya, that bees ur actually vury calm ‘n passive . . . in my 20 years of raisin’ bees, they’ve always bin quiet ‘n docile.”

The drive home was a slow and steady journey, with every bump and pothole causing me to cautiously and worriedly look over at my bees, which were placed in the leg-area of the front passenger seat. I was thinking the worst case scenario with every major car movement (i.e. that all my bees would fall to the bottom of the box after being suspended to each other and the metal can of sugar syrup and cause all sorts of ruckus and agitated commotion within the box), but they turned out to be just fine riding on home with me.

What can I say? I love these little creatures already! And I seriously can’t wait until tomorrow when I will head on over to my friend’s house in the wee hours of the morning, dawn the suit of a beekeeper and together with my friend, introduce them into their new home, along with their respective queens to reign over them in consecrated unity and sweet prosperity!