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Beekeeping => General Beekeeping => Topic started by: Jen on June 01, 2014, 03:40:22 pm
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Hubby says he has the answer "Grow a mustache!"
My reply "After menopause that's definately an option Smart Arse!"
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Jen, don't stick your nose where it don't belong. :laugh: :laugh: Jack
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:D I was just harvesting a couple of bees to give to someone who uses the stings for pain relief in his hip. I was doing A Good Thing! Well at least my right nostil will feel great today :D
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That can make your eyes water. Although the amount you sting yourself It probably is not that bad. I got 2 on the left nostril with in an 1/2 hour 2 weeks back and no reaction after the first 10 second pain was gone.
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Jen, you won't have any buggers on that side for at least a week! :D
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OUch! :'(
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"Jen, don't stick your nose where it don't belong. :laugh: :laugh: Jack"
what jack said..... :D
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Tef- "Jen, you won't have any buggers on that side for at least a week! :D
Hmmm, come to think of it.... I havent' had an itchy nose today...... hmmmm
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Jen, don't stick your nose where it don't belong. :laugh: :laugh: Jack
Hubby says he has the answer "Grow a mustache!"
My reply "After menopause that's definately an option Smart Arse!"
So I blew the Y pipe out of my Dually today, and then lost the clutch on the way home.. Get a call canceling a job I had to re schedule other jobs to fit in for a friend... not so sure were still friends after I let go with both barrels... Couple days ago I ran over the wifes little boat with the tractor when the steering locked up, so took it to the shop to look at it..( The tractor, boat is toast) found the issue, but its gonna be EXPENSIVE to fix... then had to run and save Pa when he had a flat tire on the side of the highway... get home, make my rum and coke, sit down to read... and find myself laughing, the troubles of the day forgotten... Thanks!!!! I really needed that!
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You're welcome ;) and may your pirate drink and my mustache solve the problems of the world my friend :D
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Getting stung there doesn't sound like any fun at all. I was so tempted to take a quick peek in one of the hives today, but I thought of your post and decided that wouldn't be the best thing. I didn't want to take the time to suit up today, so I will have to do it after work tomorrow.
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Would love to hear what you find tomorrow evening Beer :)
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So I blew the Y pipe out of my Dually today, and then lost the clutch on the way home.. Get a call canceling a job I had to re schedule other jobs to fit in for a friend... not so sure were still friends after I let go with both barrels... Couple days ago I ran over the wifes little boat with the tractor when the steering locked up, so took it to the shop to look at it..( The tractor, boat is toast) found the issue, but its gonna be EXPENSIVE to fix... then had to run and save Pa when he had a flat tire on the side of the highway... get home, make my rum and coke, sit down to read... and find myself laughing, the troubles of the day forgotten... Thanks!!!! I really needed that!
I've had days like that! :-\
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So Perry, what's life like over 50 hives?
Noticed you haven't been on here much either.
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Dang, Jen. I feel your pain. I took one to the nostril a couple of weeks ago when one of the girls managed to find a way inside my veil. My heart tends to race a little when I have one or two girls flying around INSIDE my suit/veil. Taking one on the nostril brought tears to my eyes. OUCH!!
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Jim- The first and second sting to the right nostril kept my eyes watering for about an hour. The other 4 are better cause I'm so alerted to the bees and my poor nose now. The craziest thing is that they keep heading for my right nostril! Every Time! Seems my schnoz is a homing site now :D
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LOL once the bees are inside, mr veil is no longer your friend!
I have seen people PANIC whern a bee got inside their veil... ripping it off in a frantic frenzy.. to be stung half a dozen times AFTER they got it off... I prefer the imminent sting inside over the dozen waiting outside ;D Have not had a bee in my veil since I got the ultra breeze.. always nice to be able to stand calmly among the angry bees while every one else runs for cover....
hehe, just dont tell the wife I said that....
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I can take a sting anywhere on my head, and have... even the eyelids, it's not that big of a deal, but the nostril is a whole other event. So when a bee gets into my veil, I just stay quiet and plug my nose thru the veil, slowly walk away and gently remove the veil ~
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reading scott's reply reminds me of ed's signature (intheswamp)
Life's mystery...which side of the veil is she on?............ :D
we have a neighbor that helps me out or helped me out especially moving hives or taking supers off, not so much anymore. he didn't want coveralls or full gear, just the tie down hat and veil. sometimes he would wear gloves, for the most part he didn't, hot, sweaty, didn't care for them.....and he was never stung under that veil or going without gloves. he just loved the bees and really enjoyed helping me.
several years ago, he came as always to help me pull supers off. we weren't standing too far from the hives, and i went to the back of my jeep to get the veil he always wore, and a pair of gloves for him.....i was going make him wear lots of coverage that day.....perhaps i jinxed him.....
i heard him swear, and i mean swear.......(navy seabee)i turned to look, and a bee or two nailed him on the nose, and inside the nose. just zinged him. didn't even have the veil on yet. so there i was trying to tell him to scrape the stingers out, and him dancing around manly and all. i managed to get the stinger out of the top of his shnoz but, okay nevermind about the one on the INSIDE of his nose. oh glory be. i gave him benadryl and tried to send him home. he wouldn't go, stayed and put the veil on and we took all the supers off.
why the fuss?......his daughter's wedding was the next afternoon........you know, wedding pictures, etc.......and his wife didn't want him coming down to help me for this reason..... :D
we were part of the wedding entourage, and the phone call i received from his wife when he went home........what could i say?
he wasn't allergic, but he did suffer quite a large local reaction to his nose, big red golfball looking thing, and his cheeks to his eyes.....photographers can do wondrous things with photographs to a certain extent but not photographs taken by friends and family..... :D
i will never forget. we had been honored and asked to ferry their daughter and her husband to be, down the river in a canoe a short distance, to waiting family/friends and the minister that married them on the banks of the river.......and there was our great friend, standing in an awesome tux, his arm around his wife, just beaming with a red oversized golf ball on his nose and his eyes nearly shut..... :D
it took his wife sometime to forgive me....
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Chuckling :) Good Story Riv! I'm sure glad we beeks can get to the point where we don't swell anymore.
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Yes, thanks for sharing that River. I got nailed on the nose last summer. Routine inspection , all the ladies were calm, then out of the blue one launched out of the hive donkey first. Square in the tip of the nose. I swear I felt the venom spread through my sinuses in about two seconds. by the time I walked to my van to look in the mirror I had tears and snot streaming down my whole face and onto my shirt. It was definitely worse than the time I ate a bee along with some wonky comb. I still dont' wear a veil, but some people are slow learners.
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Pete- "by the time I walked to my van to look in the mirror I had tears and snot streaming down my whole face and onto my shirt."
:D :D :D Don't I know it!
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heheh.. Mrs River... you made the event even more memorable! Or more precisely, your bees did. Great story definitely worth the read, Thanks!
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when the girls work me over so efficiently a couple nights back, my veil must have slipped up in the back, by the time I got back to a place of refuge lol there must have been eight to ten bees inside the veil, all dragging their entrails. when it first started you know you're going to be in for a rough time but you also know you can't stop. I am adopting a motto that I remembered recently " Embrace the suck “. And I did ! :O
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Oh Good Gravy That's Funny!
Barry.. have you considered a bee shirt? I don't own a bee suit. But I do get pretty good milage out of the bee shirt when I need to get down and dirty with the bees.
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River, You have some of the best bee story's And lufkin tap story's.... Some is the events you find yourself in but also in the way you wright and tell the story. I always enjoy reading them, thanks for the stories, the laughs, and looking forward to the book. Life on the River with the River.
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Mee Too Apis! A well written story stays with me for a lifetime ~ between Riv and Scott, I'm always captured
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apis, 'keith', thank you very much for the compliment. you too jen. not sure that i am capable of writing a book of 'river's bee adventures' or 'life on the river' , but sure have experienced some very funny stuff with some of my quirky neighbors and the bees over the years. we all have. scott has a 'gift' as well for telling a story, not sure that i have a gift, but sure do appreciate the compliment and i just write what i think, i guess.
pete....when i read this.....
"Yes, thanks for sharing that River. I got nailed on the nose last summer. Routine inspection , all the ladies were calm, then out of the blue one launched out of the hive donkey first. Square in the tip of the nose. I swear I felt the venom spread through my sinuses in about two seconds. by the time I walked to my van to look in the mirror I had tears and snot streaming down my whole face and onto my shirt. It was definitely worse than the time I ate a bee along with some wonky comb. I still dont' wear a veil, but some people are slow learners."
i literally laughed outloud! you are a serious type guy sometimes, i mean no offense, but this was just too funny!!! yep it described my friend....his nose and sinuses were totally on fire, and tears and snot running down his face to his shirt. we had to take a few 'tear and snot breaks', i swear, he could barely see, but i think his fear of going home to his wife was greater, so why he stayed and suffered it out......we were both in trouble..... :D