Beekeeping Contraptions

[aggienaut]

   So at work this morning. Ryan is sawing / hammering / other loud mechanical noises some contraption together. Apparently a prototype new "bee vacuum." Dave (boss) and Bob are talking excitedly about their shared interest in potted plants and where to get the best equipment for such, and I'm working on the computer. Suddenly Dave turns to me:
   "Hey Kris where's your integrated bee management definition??"
   "Um.. on this computer, why?"
   "I want it to have bee in it"
   "uhh... what??"
   "I B M, I want it to be I B E E M. What's it say currently?"
   "Uh, 'integrated bee management'"
   "Hm. [turns to Jeremy] have you seen our definition of integrated bee managment?"
   "Yeah"
   "You're not just an exterminator you know..."
...


   In other news, I bring you... a time travelling beehive!

It's actually apparenty a real hive someone designed for god knows what reason. It's titled "the Neighbours Improved Cottage Hive," leading me to wildly assume whomever published the picture of it threw it in as "and here's the crazy contraption my jackass neighbour designed ... it keeps breaking the space time continuum ... jackass."

(from this blog of pages and pages of different styles of beehives)


The seemingly endless variety of beehive designs reminds me of an age-old adage, frequently quoted today and also found quoted in literature written as many as 150 years ago -- "Ask any five beekeepers a question and you will get six answers"

Comments

[rattsu.livejournal.com]

My grandfather was a beekeper and head of the local beekepers association, so I can vouch for that old adage.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I hear it all the time but I was amused to recently read it in a 150 year old publication I happened to be flipping through.

[cacophonesque.livejournal.com]

I think that all of those hive designs are fascinating. It's kind of amazing that there is so much creativity and innovation going on.

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

I want to live in the time-travelling bee hive!

[abe-lincoln666.livejournal.com]

I wonder what's the origin of that old phrase "Bees in one's bonnet"?

Bees in one's bonnet

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Oh I always assumed it was quite literal. Having bees in one's bonnet would be alarming.

Additionally the hood/veil part of a bee suit is sometimes referred to as the bonnet. One will frequently get a bee or two in there. The experienced beekeeper ignores them but the uninitiated sometimes freak out.

Innovation!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I posted once before about the type of people who become beekeepers, maybe I should add to that innovative. I think it inherently takes a bit of liking to make intricate systems work, ie managing the beehives successfully, and a corollary to that is probably thinking of crafty ways to try to improve it!

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Maybe that's where the "disappearing bees" are going!! A different time!!!

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

I haven't got anything to say except that when I read your subject, I thought it said "beekeeping contraception."

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

yes if you're all stung up so your face puffs out like some kind of ogre (not shrek though, he manages to still look cute, that bastard), you are certainly unlikely to accidentally get impregnated / impregnate someone. It also helps if you hurt all over so can barely touch another person.

[comedychick.livejournal.com]

That sounds like a pretty helpful method of contraception, I have to say. Although perhaps not the prettiest or most comfortable. And some men complain about the discomfort of condoms...

[mortimer-ford.livejournal.com]

I B E E M SINCE THE 70S

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Hahaha extra points for bringing in a reference I haven't referred to in a bit I think.

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

"Bee vacuum?"

Some day, you have to take your tales of the bee mines and sell them for LOTSA GOOD MONEY to some Hollywood producer, and...

Re: Bees in one's bonnet

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

Count me in as an uninitiated one who would manically hop around, yelling as I tore my bonnet off my head, thereby exposing me to other bees.

Re: Bees in one's bonnet

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Aw the bees just want to say "haaai" :D


Up at the very TOP of the mast the other day I found a bee hanging out. I was like "aww HI!"

Re: Bees in one's bonnet

[fsk8ing-judge.livejournal.com]

Ok then, "haaaai" right back at them.

Wait, are you serious? A bee at the top of the mast? Must have followed you, huh? ;)

Re: Bees in one's bonnet

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

I've got no idea what she was doing up there but yeah she was sitting on the mast. Quietly departed when I approached. That's eighty feet up though I don't know why I bee would be up there!