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March 23, 2006
L.A. mountains and the attic bees
It is such a beautiful day! Just a few days into Spring and L.A. is living up to its reputation. Fortunately L.A. failed at one thing this morning: the Smog. When I left my apartment and turned onto Beach Boulevard, there far off in the distance beyond La Habra was a stretch of the most gorgeous snow covered mountains. Smogless mornings like this are a rarity, and so warrant much jubilation and picture-taking. I am content for a moment.
A few weeks ago we noticed outside our window a sort of small swarm of bees. Though we inquired to the manager about it, nothing was heard on the subject for a while...until today. It seems that pest control came today to check things out and concluded that based on the number of bees outside, there could be between six and ten thousand bees in the hive, as well as thirty to forty pounds of honey. Imagine that! And this is all taking place just inches above my bedroom ceiling! It's all very fascinating. Tomorrow they will be coming to blow a hole in our ceiling and blast those bees to oblivion. If they didn't have to pump the attic full of pesticides, I would ask them to save me some honeycomb, but I don't think they'll care to honor that request...
-Lib
Posted by libbystokes at March 23, 2006 01:08 PM