Honey

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Thanks Queen! (Queen Bee??)

It's kind of funny, but bees sort of keep popping up in my life.
I have a bee tattoo....one of my daughters has an entomology degree and wound up working in the bee dept at CornellU....I run a little side business that has a bee playing banjo as it's logo...other stuff too...

Then I started this thread because the last 2 months I've been having a craving for honey something fierce. That's when I looked for a bee-ish image that might reflect my "inner beedom"...and found this image. En garde! I really love it, it's similar to how I feel inside when I have my Shebeest yellow and black biking jacket on with my yellow helmet...I feel like some sort of super bee when I wear them.

Besides, I got bored with my dopey old avatar.

[Pax]

Thanks Queen! (Queen Bee??)

It's kind of funny, but bees sort of keep popping up in my life.
I have a bee tattoo....one of my daughters has an entomology degree and wound up working in the bee dept at CornellU....I run a little side business that has a bee playing banjo as it's logo...other stuff too...

Then I started this thread because the last 2 months I've been having a craving for honey something fierce. That's when I looked for a bee-ish image that might reflect my "inner beedom"...and found this image. En garde! I really love it, it's similar to how I feel inside when I have my Shebeest yellow and black biking jacket on with my yellow helmet...I feel like some sort of super bee when I wear them.

Besides, I got bored with my dopey old avatar.

Cool about your daughters college job, I have a good friend who worked the bee labs when she was in college...she painted dots of the back of the bees (I have no idea why?).

BTW - A bee tattoo sounds very unique.

[KnottedYet]

do we get to see pics of the bee tattoo?

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

do we get to see pics of the bee tattoo?

Sorry, only DH gets to see it!

Yes, my daughter painted dots on bees too for a while, to track their movements, breeding, and such. She used to send me honey and pollen. At one time she and I both kept tarantulas. Nowadays she has traded the fluttering wings of butterflies for the turning leaves of books- she works at a big library in Northampton MA and is in charge of repairing and restoring all their valuable books. She likes to work with handmade books, bookbinding, and artists' books, and she makes poetry chapbooks with her partner (a performance poet & playwright)- she was just too creative for entomolgy!

What makes honey crystallize?? I bought a little jar of buckwheat honey and 2 weeks after I opened it it has strated forming little crunchie crystals- yummy!- but why does it happen?

[Meaux]

Someone was asking about the Honey Stingers. They are GREAT! They taste SO much better than regular energy gels. But beware, one of the guys said that if you eat too many of them at a time, you can get diarrhea. I don't know if you get that from regular gels, so maybe you could alternate. However, Stingers, in moderation, are very yummy.