Ten Things My Wife Makes Fun of Me For

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Keeping track of the value of my honey in the belief that this is one of the few hobbies that comes out on the plus side of a cost/benefit analysis.

Spending a day at the local Fair repeating the same basic facts again and again …  and enjoying doing so. 

My old, wide-brimmed, green netted bee veil. Hey, it keeps the sun off my ears and the bees out of my face. 

Getting yet another hive tool for Christmas – and truly appreciating the thoughtfulness.

Looking forward to a morning of surrounding myself with insects who (she thinks) want to sting me. 

My brother-in-law’s fondness of referring to me as the “wacko bee guy.”

Replacing damaged hive bodies every winter while being totally satisfied with the 15-year-old carpet in the living room.

Finding different creative ways to answer the question, “Do you ever get stung? ”eg. “Only once a year, by the IRS” 

Looking like a drowned, filthy, swollen,  red-faced rat after getting caught with a hive open in the rain. 

Being unable to go on a walk without peering at every large tree looking for a feral colony.

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I have spent some 75 years living and working in England,Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, South Africa and the USA, with many opportunities to learn from beekeepers in a v variety of African and European countries in between . An educator by profession, with a focus on history and group dynamics, the honey bees chose me in 2002, despite which, like many beekeepers, I lost my first two hives over winter. In 2009 I was asked by the editor of the PSBA to write a column for the monthly newsletter, which she labelled "Jeremy's Corner"; 14 years later is still continues. A rather eclectic style of content and vision developed, and these posts are based mostly on those essays. Meanwhile I was fortunate to be honored as York County's Beekeeper of there Year in 2013, and similarly for Pennsylvania in 2018.

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