“Sony, I don’t want any adventures today. Thank you!” —Bilbo Baggins“Yesterday, when it was tomorrow, it was too exciting a day for me.” And, “You never can tell with bees.” —Winnie the PoohIn the nightmare, I was delivering a van load of nuc hives to beekeepers in New York’s North Country, the region north of the Adirondacks bordering Canada. I swerved to avoid a deer, the van careening sideways into a ditch. The nuc hives burst open. Bees were crawling all over me and stinging by the hundreds. I woke up sweating at 3:00 AM, an hour before my alarm clock. I dressed and made coffee. In my head I could hear the kind of music they play in movies just before the hero walks into a trap or just before the deer jumps in front of a van loaded with nuc hives.
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