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As many of you know, Surya and I bought an amazing house out here in Temecula with a HUGE lot. Since it was a short sale, the yard was/is atrocious! Surya has been very hard at work and the front yard is starting to take shape. We just put in grass and Surya planted me a bunch of flowers and ordered me some patio furniture for our porch. We still have a long way to go, but we are surely on our way!
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So why the honeybee title and music, you ask? Well, when we first moved in, we had bees flying around the columns, so the bank paid someone to come out and spray. We have noticed that the bees are back, but we really didn't want to kill them, but there are so many of them we are not able to enjoy our new front yard. So Surya called a place that relocates the hive and they suggested that we open up the columns to remove the old hive and discard of the carcasses left behind from the first time they sprayed. That should make the bees go away. So Surya opened up the column this morning and this is what he found:
YIKES!!
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| They ate through the paper. |
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| Hundreds, |
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| and hundreds, |
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| and hundreds of bees! |
Some are alive and some are the remains from the first time we sprayed. Fortunately, Surya had a moment of clarity in his shock and confusion this morning as he walked outside with a plastic bag telling me we was going to grab the Queen, and decided to call in professionals. We REALLY wanted to just relocate them, but they said when they live in a column like this, they are very aggressive.
Awww...the joys of home ownership!
