Fingers is living the dream...

.. And I'm completely jealous.

Smarty pants Fingers who works for a certain provincial environmental body (*wink wink nudge nudge*) has a fancy new staff project... She's become an apiarists! Yup, she's a beekeeper. All summer long she and a few of her fellow tree hugging buddies have been raising 10,000+ bee babies in Orange's family backyard (small world), and she's doing delightfully well. While not yet at "farm status" they harvested 40lbs of honey last weekend to split between the five of them, with another 40lbs estimated before summer's end.

This past weekend we celebrated their success with a Bee-B-Q (dad would be proud of the punniness of this reference) and a demonstration:

While I was pretty excited to get up close and personal with Fingers' new extended family, I'm not yet able to scratch "keep bees" off my Improbably Life Goals list just yet. That said, the Queens are looking to cut out the Drones (the two dudes they went in on this with) because the men are pulling less than their share of the work so... *shifty eyes*... maybe if I'm good I can sweet talk (honey talk?) Fingers into letting me join their club?! I'm really just in it for the hat and gloves...

Very cool, Fingers. Very cool.