I told many of my coworkers and friends about me and Katie’s getting bees, and the almost universal reaction was disbelief, ridicule, and dire warnings of death and chaos.

Our sister Courtney has been one of the few exceptions, for which I am grateful.  Don’t worry though: I am not discouraged by this backlash against our beloved (and misunderstood) bees, for I know how cool they are

Bees can sting you, and that is scary, especially if you hear about the few Africanized (killer) bee attacks that have happened in the past years.  But if a beekeeper pays attention to his bees and stewards them well, the chance of killer bees infiltrating the hive unnoticed are nil.

This kind of thing is not explainable, though, to the average person because of the pre-conceived ideas that they have, often fed by simple ignorance of bees and by the media, who never reports when someone was not stung by bees.

May God bless my bees, and all my neighbors and coworkers, too!