BEES REMEMBER THAT AWFUL FIRE YEARS LATER

Hi, this is Delbert.  It has been a good spring.  A lot of flowers.  Plenty of nectar to take back to the hive to make honey.  We bees have even been able to be a bit lazy.  We are still "as busy as a bee" of course.  But it's good to be able to sit on the edge of a flower and chat a bit from time to time.  Yesterday several of us were sitting on some very bright red flowers and someone mentioned that it was a fire red.  Right away we all got quiet.  We remembered that awful fire that burned in Montrachet a few years ago.  The smoke was so bad that some of us passed out.  It put us right to sleep.  That fire was miles away from our hive but it was dense and strong.  Kind of weird actually, kind of yellow gray and a worse smell than usual for smoke.  Of course we later found out that a bit of evil had been involved in that fire.  Very bad time for all of Thimblewyck.  Yes,we all sat around and remembered that fire.  It caused the death of Lina's parents.  Very bad.  People think bees just fly around and work, work, work.  We do a lot more than that.  We know what's going on.  We talk about it too.  Well, I have been sitting a bit.  Better get to work.  Buzz at you later.