April 26, 2011 • Page 7 shop online at www.missourivalleyshopper.com LAURA ON LIFE ‘Bee’ Careful It’s Springtime “It’s Spring! It’s Spring! Time to get the hive in order. Wake up all you bees! It’s Spring!” “Are you crazy, Benny! The robins haven’t even come back yet! Go back to sleep!” “Don’t you see, Bert? We can get a jump on the honeymaking, hive development and baby bee production if we get up and out a little earlier this year than our nexthive neighbors.” “It’s too cold.” “That’s what’s weird, Bert. It’s not cold. And the flowers are all blooming. Let’s go!” “Grrrph… alright…” Flying over the landscape we witness winter’s ravages: The brown grass, the mud, the naked trees. “So where are all the damn flowers, Benny? Huh?” “Look! There’s one!” “You got me out of a cozy hibernation for one lousy daffodil?” “Well, okay, so the buds haven’t quite opened yet, but we can still work on hive development, right?” “Look! A human! Let’s go buzz him!” Buzzing is one of Bert’s favorite things to do. It’s not the part about flying directly into a human’s face that excited him. It was all that dancing and swatting a human does after having been buzzed. There was something different about this particular human, though. He was carrying something big. He raised it, pointed it at a squirrel and projected a mighty stream of water in its direction. The squirrel dived for cover. It was a highpowered squirt gun. Wow… We don’t usually encounter this type of advanced weaponry until at least June. Before I could warn Bert, he was already in buzzing formation and had a lock on his target. It was a successful buzz as the human danced and swatted to the unholy glee of Bert, but then… the weapon was locked and loaded and aimed at my friend. It was time for me to go in. I buzzed past the little human’s right ear just as he pulled the trigger. The shot went wide and Bert escaped the fierce onslaught. 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