Sunday, 10 November 2024

OMFG, BEES!










And many thanks to blogging buddy Mistress Maddie of A Day With The Mistress Borghese for a recent lovely surprise gift! The wee bee plushie is SO cute and the book by Matt Kracht is not only extremely informative but also HILARIOUS! 


Some of the book's GROANALICIOUS puns and wordplay include "you're pollen my leg," "swarm in here or is it just me?" and "sorry to drone on." For those of you traumatized by bees, the author has also created a very handy "Fear-Based Bee Opinion Matrix" (F-BOM) to guide you. And there's even an illustrated chapter of "Great Paintings, If They Had Put Bees In Them."

37 comments:

sirkkis said...

Thanks for a big smile with bees 🐝😆🐝

Val Ewing said...

I have that book and his bird book too. Both of them are hilarious as well as informative!

Bob said...

"Don't make it weird man" amd "Tsunambee" slayed me!

Marie Smith said...

Love the bees…what a bee-utiful gift. Groan! It is though!

Tom said...

...bee well my friend!

Boud said...

This is a lot of fun. I have to find that book now.

Travel said...

I grew up with a billion bees in the back yard.

Ellen D. said...

That's pretty funny, Debra!

Cleora Borealis said...

🤣 Bee butts rule!! Of course they're tired, humans are killing them off and those remaining have a huge workload!! Maybe they should have union representation as well as workers' comp!! ✊️

Lady M said...

Bees and I have happily coexisted in my garden for decades.

Mistress Maddie said...

When I got that book Debs and read it I knew I had to go back and get you a copy. I haven't laughed that hard at a book in ages. And the meme with the Bumblebee sleeping in the flower is so true. This past summer when I was in my wildflower garden I saw a bee in a flower like that and I thought it was dead. I went to clip the flower and then behold ,he woke up and flew out. I couldn't believe a bee fell asleep in a flower. That's like me falling asleep with a glass of gin.

bruce.desertrat said...

That giant flying stabby thing on the Tsunamabee poster is...a hornet, I believe...I fully believe that THEY would form an enormous unstoppable storm of stabbiness.

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ bruce.desertrat -- Yeah, I think you're right. But they still used "bee" as the basis for the pun "Tsunambee," Guess they were not counting on sharp-eyed individuals like you!

Leanna said...

I love bees. Not all the flowers are blooming around here in the early spring so I help the bees along by starting the hummingbird feeders early because they love the sugar nectar I make for them.
That picture of the bee butt is so cute.

Parnassus said...

Hello Debra, I found the following info: "Female solitary bees sleep in their nests but male solitary bees sleep outside, resting in places like grass stalks or in flowers." From this reader-friendly article about bees:
https://invisibledust.com/journal/what-do-bees-do-when-theyre-not-at-work/
--Jim

Mike said...

You bee doin' good today.

Violetta said...

A big toast to the bees.....you don´t recognize it, but they keep nature going....and us too.
Have a good time
Violetta

Tundra Bunny said...

BEE-UTIFUL! "Don't make it weird, man" made me LOL!

Mary Kirkland said...

What a nice gift.

Kathy G said...

Those gifts are right up your alley.

Pixie said...

I love bees, they are amazing, not just for how hard they work but also for how their society is set up. I too am named after the patron saint of bees.

DB Stewart said...

Don't make this weird, man lol.

angela said...

Love the fat bottom on that bee and your snuggly is adorable

e said...

Love the memes! Love the bees!
Check out TexasBeeWorks online. She is amazing! Always closes with '...and it was another great day of saving the bees.'

Joanne Noragon said...

Great post.

Ur-spo said...

My brother tried to cultivate bees, but it did not work out, worse luck. I like the notion of bees nearby.

Moving with Mitchell said...

I love all these memes except for Tsunambee. I zipped passed that quickly. It would give me nightmares. Even the meme that followed made me queasy. Bees covered in pollen make me happy. That book from Maddie sounds wonderful. I might look for it myself. He’s such a honey!

baili said...

thanks for the smile dear Debra for the smiles
i loved the gift your blogger friend has sent to you so Cute and book looks interesting
i wanted to send you gift as well since i have received one from you my friend but we have lost some thing in the way to Germany when we tried to send to our son .my eldest son puts solution that when he will visit us we must hand him and he will send it to you from London .hope it will work

Ol'Buzzard said...

Yes, we need bees; and we love their bee vomit.
the Ol'Buzzard

Debra She Who Seeks said...

@ baili -- Oh, you are too kind! And your elder son has a good plan. Thank you!

Polly said...

That's a lovely gift. Thank you for the smiles. I love the bee that has fallen asleep :-)

DVArtist said...

Great post. You are the best.

This N That said...

I love the bees all covered in pollen...

Carpet Cleaner Long Island, NY said...

Thank you so much for sharing, I've never seen a bee up close with pollen like that!

Busy Bee Suz said...

You have to know I LOVE this post! The book looks great and I love the little plushie; what a sweet, sweet gift!

Fundy Blue said...

I didn't know that bees could fall asleep in flowers. What a thoughtful gift you received from Mistress Maddie.

Rawknrobyn.blogspot.com said...

Mistress Maddie's a peach. "Pollen my leg" - haha. Pretty good wordplay.