What is John up to now with his new Honey???

I told you last week about how my John fell madly in love with his new Queen Bee.

He risk life and limb climbing up into a tall tree to capture her and 10,000 of her family when they came buzzing into our patio several months ago.

I was afraid that he would fall and break his neck....I was yelling

"John come down from there...she is not worth killing yourself over"

...but he would not listen to me.

He survived his "high" adventure

and built Queenie and her family a nice house at the back of our property.
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At first I ignored them.

Then for a while, to make them feel welcome and like their new home, I made them sugar syrup ,which John took out for them to eat.
I was very understanding considering the love and attention John was giving his new Honey and her brood.

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But....lately, I decided that enough was enough!

I told John that his new honey had been a freeloader long enough.

I said that it was time for her to pay some rent for her new home.

John agreed with me.

He went out and told her that she would have to share some of her

liquid gold with us.

Queenie agreed....and didn't seem disturbed that John demanded payment.
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That is when John's new adventure began.

He found out that a honey extractor costs $700 or more.
$700!!!!!

So John being the thrifty, clever type (cheap), decided to build is own extractor.

He spent about a week drawing up the plans and making his extractor.

He bought a large trash can and fit PCP pipe inside.

He built wooden forms to fit inside the tub over the PCP pipe.

He made a fitting for his drill.

When he turned his drill on the wooden forms spun around and around really fast.

Next he went out to Queen Bee and took 4 of her wax honeycomb frames.

He scraped the tops off of the honeycomb cells and...

...placed the frames into his contraption.

He secured the frames with another wooden contraption that he made.

He turned on his drill....and around and around the honeycomb frames went.

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We could hardly wait to get our liquid gold.

Around and around the frames spun faster and faster.

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Do you think it worked?

Did we get our desired gold from his new Queen Bee honey?

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Tell me what you think? Did John's extractor work?

You will have to wait and see.

Until then, I hope that you have an un-bee-lievably good week.

Love, Lura

My John found a new honey! part 1

I thought I knew my husband well.

I have known him for 45 years ....

and been married to him for 44 years...

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I never in a million years thought he would do something like this.

I thought I was his only Queen Bee....

...but I was wrong...

Now he has a new honey.

I should have recognized the signs.

I noticed that he had been showing a lot of interest in her kind lately.

A few months ago he even bought a hat at a garage sale just to wear when he was with her.

...but I never thought it was anything serious....

...Until early one morning a few months ago.

We were having a lovely breakfast in the patio with Claire...

when it happened!

Ms. Queen Bee and 10,000 of her family made an uninvited visit.

They came buzzing by... disrupting our meal...and made themselves right at home in our tree by the pool.

My husband left me....without even saying goodbye...and climbed up a tall tree to visit them.

I told him that he was too old to be running after a new honey.

I was yelling..."No, No John....please think about what you are doing."

I was worried that no good could come from this, wild inpectious love of his.

But, my pleas went unheeded.

He not only went up to visit....he brought them back with him.

...And told them they could stay.

He did all this right in front of our little grand-daughter Claire

That is when I put my foot down.

I said if they were going to stay he would have to build them a house way in the back of our property.

I certainly wasn't going to have them in the house!

So he did.
As I said that was some time ago.

...and...with the passage of time...I have gotten use to the idea.

I've forgiven John for scaring me to death.

I've come to realize that Ms. Queen Bee and her family are not all that bad.
In fact they are quite sweet....literally dripping with honey.

So, we are all living together now.

I let John go out and visit them from time to time.

I leave them alone and they ignore me.

I like it that way.

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However, something happened last week that changed everything.

John started spending hours with them....leaving me in the house alone for days at a time.

I will have to tell you about that at another time.

I'm not up to it tonight.

You really won't believe what happened next.

Stay tuned for the next "true confessions" installment.

Meanwhile, please give me your advice.

What would you do if your husband Bee-haved this way?

Leave me a comment and tell me what I should do.

Thanks and hugs,

Lura