Not telling your spouse

[D Semple]

Swarm season is in full swing here and my wife is fed up with me chasing and catching more swarms.

So I find myself not telling her about half the swarms I'm catching.  :evil:

Anybody else have to evade the truth about their beekeeping?

Don

[BeeMaster2]

My wife sometimes get a little upset when I call her to say I am chasing after bees. Usually though if I do not have anyone to help me she will come along and help out. She does not like to go into the hives but when needed she will hold a frame of bees and hand me tools and take close up pictures.  :)
Jim

[buzzbee]

You guys will be starting that 12 step pogram before long! :-D :-D

[BeeMaster2]

Yea, Thanks Buzzbee.
Jim

[D Semple]

You guys will be starting that 12 step pogram before long! :-D :-D

Sign me up, cuckoo for cocoa puffs

Step 1 should be- you are only allowed to keep mean bees (got popped on the ear and under the arm last night shampooing the dog in the back yard)  :rant:

Don

[jayj200]

Jim
least she knows your not chasing skirts.

[kingd]

The only thing my wife is worried about is the cost,To her, free bees are great,cost to house them not so great.
My mentor wants me to get 50 more boxes "just in case"  :-D

[hjon71]

Lying to your spouse to cover your activities is a sign of addiction.  :evil:
Do you often tell yourself "I could stop if I really wanted to."?

[buzzbee]

You guys will be starting that 12 step pogram before long! :-D :-D

Sign me up, cuckoo for cocoa puffs

Step 1 should be- you are only allowed to keep mean bees (got popped on the ear and under the arm last night shampooing the dog in the back yard)  :rant:

Don

When first reading that I missed the dog in the comments. I thought you were having to shampoo in the back yard! :-D :-D

[MsCarol]

Boys,

The nice part about being single.......no explanations .....except to self. ........WHERE are you going to put them if you catch them????

Outta $$$$ and outta ideas. Now need to cultivate friend with wood working skills and tools to do so!!!!

[D Semple]

Boys,

The nice part about being single.......no explanations .....except to self. ........WHERE are you going to put them if you catch them????

Outta $$$$ and outta ideas. Now need to cultivate friend with wood working skills and tools to do so!!!!

I've come to the conclusion (although I had no idea at the time) I had no more chance of getting away than these swarms we catch  :-X

Good luck Miss Carol, lots of handy guys with tools in Tennessee.


Don

[D Coates]

Guilty.  The extremes are: one to three swarms a week when nothing is going on and I'm well below radar, to If I'm in the middle of family commitments I've got to hope they'll stay or pass them on.  As with any relationship you've got to pick the proverbial field your willing to march out on to stand as well as recognize superior forces and cede the field.  She does the same for her pursuits as well.

To this point I tell her I could always take up golf instead of keeping bees...  So far that's her tipping point.  If she ever calls me on it though I'm hosed as I enjoy beekeeping and hate golf.

[BeeMaster2]

To this point I tell her I could always take up golf instead of keeping bees...  So far that's her tipping point.  If she ever calls me on it though I'm hosed as I enjoy beekeeping and hate golf.

Same here. My attempts at golfing look more like bowling with a smaller ball.  :-D
Jim

[jayj200]

Don
looking for the girl that runs a table saw as well as sets a good table

[gardeningfireman]

I tell her, then deal with the aftermath later. She gets really angry because of the time involved. She says that until the kids have left the nest and I am retired, I don't have time for a hobby! There is too much to do to be doing anything for yourself. I say "bullsh!t to that"! That's one reason there are so many divorces; over-controlling/nagging spouses! :-x

[Michael Bush]

Next time tell her you were out with your mistress... when she finds out it was just a swarm she will be relieved...

[RHBee]

And here I thought I was the only one. Thanks guys.

[amun-ra]

Tis easyier to get forgiveness than permission so carry on gents.

[DMLinton]

The way I see it, if one secretly bets the rent money on the ponies, drops by the beer store twice a day, spends 'quality' time with a woman that's not his wife or snorts a line of cocaine now and then, he needs to re-evaluate his value system and, quite probably, get professional help.

If a woman needs to object to her mate's perfectly legal, moral and productive past times, she needs to re-evaluate her value system and, quite probably, get professional help.  I recognize that many women, and men for that matter, need to control their mate's every move - that's illness not virtue.

[RHBee]

The way I see it, if one secretly bets the rent money on the ponies, drops by the beer store twice a day, spends 'quality' time with a woman that's not his wife or snorts a line of cocaine now and then, he needs to re-evaluate his value system and, quite probably, get professional help.

If a woman needs to object to her mate's perfectly legal, moral and productive past times, she needs to re-evaluate her value system and, quite probably, get professional help.  I recognize that many women, and men for that matter, need to control their mate's every move - that's illness not virtue.

I gotta ask...Are you married?  I don't look at it as control, she just wants me to spend that much time with her. I think it's more like jealousy.  :-D
Ray