joining the ranks

"Everyone should have two or three hives of bees", wrote Sue Hubbell in A Book of Bees. "Bees are easier to keep than a dog or a cat. They are more interesting than gerbils." And with a place now for the bee yard, comes my opportunity to keep bees. Bee books underlined and scattered, read and read and read again, it is now time for me to join the historic ranks of the bee keeper. Since the days of the ancient Egyptians, the earliest apiarists, who believed that honey had rained down from the gods into the hungry mouths of flowers, and that bees were the messengers of the gods, there have been bee keepers. I now humbly join the sweet golden rays of bee keeping history.