Day 379

Bees:

Wow!

Today started out quiet and normal. The kids and I worked on our schoolwork. We had our lunch, and went to get some groceries. On the way to the van, I went to see how the bees were doing. The exterminator had sprayed them a few days ago. We knew that many of them were dying and hadn't seen much activity. But then there were a couple of cool (almost cold) and damp days. These are the days that we didn't see much of the bees anyhow. But today it was going to be sunny and almost 60 degrees, so if there were any still alive we would probably be able to see thing flying around.

Sure enough when I went to check, I saw some. But not that many. I had been hoping not to see any, but it was still looking like they were slowly dying. After we got back home we went into the Tower Room (living room) to watch a Bill Nye the Science Guy. Ella got up to throw something away, and came back to tell me that she saw two bees flying around in the bathroom. So I got up, grabbed the bug stray and headed for the bathroom. When I got in the landing room, I realized that it was a few more than the two bees I was expecting. So I got the spray ready and stepped near the bathroom. When I saw that there are around 50-75 bees buzzing around in a very agitated state, I decided that it was just time to pack up the kids and go to the park. One or two bees is no big deal but when there is more than 20, well, lets just say I was ready to get out of there...

On our way to the van, I look up at the area over the back porch (where the bees have been living) and saw well over 100 bees buzzing around up there. So over to the van and the park. While at the park I called Jonathan to let him know what was going on and I called the exterminator.

After 2 hours of playing at the park, the kids were asking to leave. Weird, I know, the kids have never asked to leave the park before. We drove slowly back home. I parked in the alley so that I could get a look at what the bees were doing. I could still see them flying around outside. I left the kids in the van and went to check out the bathroom. I was actually a bit surprised to see not one bee flying around. There were many dead or dying bees on the floor. There were also dead and nearly dead bees in the girls' room as well as the kitchen.

The exterminator is coming back again tonight to spray them again. Maybe even from inside the bathroom this time. Tomorrow is going to be even warmer than it was today. so I am really hoping that they are dead soon. They were less scary before we started to kill them. Then we would only have a few in the house, sometimes they were really thick outside. But now that they are dying, they are all over.

Bees, Bees, Go away, find some other place to stay...