It has been a long time since I really stopped and tried to fully appreciate Mother Nature, but I did today and there was a really funny thing that caused it.
It was a beautiful day, went for a Full Stroll through the hill with Ellen & Nara which was delightful, and the yearly hill wine walk was going on, which was fantastic. We also stopped and talked with Uncle Frank + some friends who live on the hill + some cousins that were in town – we saw a lot of great people and enjoyed the amazing weather, but non of that is what triggered the focused view at mother nature.
Once we got home I looked out our window and there was a bee, just hovering there. I watched him for a bit, then walked over to another window, and there was a bee hovering there too….. wait what – thats strange. I watched these bees for a while, and realized – oh shit they are trying to find their hive. We had an exterminator come last year and exterminate this massive bee hive. It was really a sad situation, we didn’t want to kill the bees, we wanted to get someone to come find the queen and move her and have the hive follow her. But it was not possible, the hive was inside of the walls in our house, literally inside an exterior brick wall. To get the queen out we would have had to demolish an entire load bearing brick wall – so yea not going to do that. So we called an exterminator and he exterminated the colony.
Now its the next spring and seems like bees are back from somewhere looking for that colony, or possible to make a new colony in our house – lol which not great…. but I mean I’m not scared. The had previously gotten in because the concrete caulking in a window had washed out. But over the last year I concreted caulked the windows and sills on ally 87 windows on the building!!! I know for almost 99% sure that I got all of them, so there is no way for them to get back into the wall…. nice try fuckers 🙂
But yea, that really got me thinking about how amazing this planet is – we have built elaborate shelters for ourselves as we have evolved, so we don’t spend all that much time actually in nature – which is understandable, in dead of winter or heat of summer – its usually pretty unpleasant to be outside lol.