Invasion!!! A Bit of Summer Excitement.

Yesterday was quite an eventful day. Cookie has been doing very well and she has even been able to put pressure on that healing leg and go for walks on a leash in the backyard. We were on one such walk yesterday afternoon when we passed one of the five trees in our backyard only to discover something very strange hanging in the tree. Upon closer observation we found out we had been invaded!!!

Hanging in our tree is a hive covered in thousands of bees!!! They have been quite busy making the most monstrous hive I have ever seen in my life It consumes our tree.

I called Cook's Pest Control first and asked them if they took care of "National Geographic type bee hives". He just laughed but I do not think he realizes that I am being very serious! Well, we called him off because after further investigation, our neighbor knows a beekeeper who is going to come and take the honey bees home to his beekeeping farm.

He stopped by this morning to come and pick up the little swarm he thought had nested. Andrew showed him the hive and he simply said, "Yeah, I'm not prepared for that! I am gonna need more tools." So he will be coming back tonight to do his beekeeper extraction from our tree. I just think it is so funny. Of all the trees in Alabama the honeybees pick a tiny tree in our backyard of five to make their home! The nest is hanging eye level in the tree on the shorter limbs. Many of our neighbors and friends have come over to see it, so if you are in the neighborhood you are quite welcome to drop by today. The beekeeper told us that he would bring us honey from our hive when he gets it. YEAH!!!

The cool God thing is that Joey was supposed to mow the yard yesterday. I distracted him all day long with different things until he just decided not to mow. He always mows on Mondays and it is strange but he just didn't yesterday. The hive is so low on the tree and hidden that Joey would have run right into it and he is terribly allergic to them. We would have been in the hospital for sure or worse! Praise God who protected through our procrastination!

Hopefully I will have more pics as the beekeeper comes! Pretty exciting stuff for a small subdivision in rural Alabama! On with the summer!