Bees...there are bees everywhere...at least there were.

So, Monday was quite the day....

It started off with a quiet morning grocery shopping trip to Walmart...to end having to have a bee guy come over to exterminate a swarm of bees...

Blake got strep throat this weekend (yes, it was legit, he had white crap in his throat) so we stayed home most of the time. Saturday he got antibiotics from the Minute Clinic at CVS pharmacy (I would highly recommend this option over going to an urgent care...much cheaper and quicker- we payed $15 + cost of medicine and literally walked right in to see the physician).

By Monday morning he was feeling much better but decided to take the day off in case he was still contagious. After we had gotten home from grocery shopping Blake said there was a bee trapped in the garage- so I went out a corralled it out of the garage. I didn't even know that by the time I went to work at noon- what I thought were rocks kicked up on the driveway were actually about 50 dead bees. Blake noticed later in the afternoon- so I investigated once I got home from work.

So here's what we discovered...a whole SWARM of bees right under the ledge of the roof...

Look a little closer...

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So, once the exterminator came over on Tuesday morning, Blake gave me a play by play (in his car a few houses down) of the beekeeper scaling a ladder two stories up, spraying this stuff on the hive, then bees falling down onto the roof and driveway like clumps of dirt. That had to have looked weird. Here was the after-affect of the spray...the beekeeper literally sweeping up clumps of dead bees.

It just looks like a bee massacre out there. Normally wouldn't feel bad about killing insects, but my dad used to be a beekeeper in his spare time when I was a kid, and I loved having our own fresh honey and homemade honey butter. If I had the option I would've had them moved...because they weren't hurting anybody- they just wanted a new home. I have always been hospitable... too bad I just didn't have many options here. Luckily they weren't killer bees...that would have changed my mind for sure. I've never been stung by a bee, so I don't dislike them- plus after watching "BEE MOVIE" I became much more informed about why we need them around... any bee haters out there?