Shane and Jenny: A Scientific Inquiry of Bees

A little about me...

Thanks for visiting my blog. I started writing here two years ago as a way to update family and friends with the happenings of our growing family. The more I wrote, the more I read (other blogs and websites), and the less isolated I felt on this journey called parenting, or on a broader spectrum, life. The more I wrote the more necessary it's become for me to write. Writing has proven much cheaper than therapy. And along the way I've discovered, I'm not horrible at it, despite what my middle and high school report cards say. Hey, Mr. Casler. Can you deal with THAT?!

Though my writings most often center around my incredibly adorable children, the content will inevitably be shaken up in the near future as I'm about take on the title "working mom" and return to the (paid) workforce. Wish me luck! I let you know how it goes....

Sunday, September 2, 2012

A Scientific Inquiry of Bees

Peyton just looked through our Shasta pictures with me and asked, "Can we go back to Shasta because it's still summuh?" Oh, I wish we could.

The next series of posts will be to catch up with our summuh (summer). (sigh)

There were bees at Shasta this year. Shane took it upon himself to eradicate our campsite of the stinging pests by making bee traps and then taking predictions as to which traps would work best. None of them worked best. Oh, they caught bees all right. When we left for the lake in the morning there were 20 bees flying around our table. When we got back to camp in the evening there were (roughly) 20,000. It was hard to get an exact count from the road. We successfully illustrated a failure to predict the unintended consequences of being a bee trapper....