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A Story I Found Worthy Of Going into Andrews Thread!
I Post This For All The Folks Out There Who Have Had or Will Have Health Issues. It Just Drives Home The Point We All Can Use Some Support Now & Again! Also Never Give Up Trying!
My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5 gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.
I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.
Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.
We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all of their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.
When it was time for me to leave we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.
Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.
Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.
We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.
Beautiful story
Dedicated to All the Caring TMS Members Past & Present!
Bee's Are So Important! Bee Good! Bee Well! I'll Bee Seeing You!
Mgb, KC
Last edited by 05stangkc; Aug 17, 2023 at 10:11 AM.
I don't know if I ever Posted a Link to Andrews Obit Page But I felt Drawn to it this Year! December is a Hard Month as We Remember His Birthday & Loss. Grandpa 4 Years Back Now & Grandma 3 Years ago as well! Take a moment to read some of Andrews Visitors Comments!
Still Collecting Parts For Andrew's Car! His Charger is 1972 SE Model. If You See First Vid You Can See The Taillight Style. He Always Wanted The Super Bee or R/T Taillights For it. a SUPER CLEAN set Showed up on Ebay & I Had To Get! I Think They Cost More Than We Paid For The Car But They are Way Nice & Way Cooler. They Came in Argent or Black and These Are Black Don't Know Which Way I Will Go With Them. I Agonized Spending The Money, But Swear I Heard a Whisper in My Ear {DAD Don't Let Those Get Away!} Been Looking 20 Years for a Nice Set! Someday Son She will Drive Again! Someday!
Today Marks 14 Years Since Andrews Passing. For All Those Over The Years Who Read His Story & Gained Some Peace With Their Own Loss I Find Some Comfort.
Thank You To The Mustang Source For a Continuing Memorial For My Son & a Place I Can Be of Use To Folks Needing Some Help With an Issue From Time To Time!
Sarah is Ready to get your Charger Back on the Road. I sent her a few pics Last Night & She is Ready to get her hands dirty & fix your Car after all these Years.
It's been Sitting Patiently in the Driveway since you passed. Sis Has a Harley these days so I think she can handle the Charger.
She Has Grandpa's old Dodge V10 Pickup He Was Saving For You. She Loves it. Put a Couple Of Rumble Bee's on the Door. Sarah did not care for them till she started getting compliments on them.
My Health finally got to the point I had to quit working so things are tight & tough these Days but we will figure out a way to get the Car Going. Dad will be supervising but not much wrenching. she used to work on the Fairlane with dad supervising so we will make it happen.
She's tough. She handles working at the Sheriff's Department in Corrections. You would be proud of her son. She don't put up with any B/S from the clientele.
Missing you Always
Love Dad.
Above, Original Post June 2019
Six Years Have Passed Since I Thought We Would Start Working on The Charger The Last Time, Which Never Happened and Low & Behold My Daughter is Now Just Recently Divorced And Reached Out To Me and Asked if I Would Spend the Weekends Working on Andrews Charger To get Her Going Again. Of Course I Would Love To! I'm in Shock at the Prospect. It's Been Too Many Years Since I had Much Quality Time With Her. She Wasted a Lot of Time With a Spouse Who Was Leading a Double Life and That is All I Will Say About that!
It will Also Be a Good Time To Finish Those Driving Lessons {Standard Trans} in The Shelby Which Dad was Wound a Bit Too Tight on All Those Years Ago! I Will Make an S-197 Fan Out Of Her Yet!
1. Swap 2.45 8 1/4 Integral Style Light Duty Rear Axle For 8 3/4 With 3.23 Posi Out of 72 C Body Newport Which I Have.
2. Convert To B&M Floor Shift Automatic From Column Shift. Have {Somewhere}!
3. Change Radio Head Unit For Phone Accessible Unit. Sarah Wants That. Current Stereo Cranks But is 90's CD Tech!
4. Custom Console For Radio.
I Don't Have Much of a Social Media Presense Due To The Fact I'm Spending The Vast Majority of My Time Here! I Would ask any Members Who Would Be Willing to Post a Link To Our Go Fund Me And Do So & Give a Character Reference For Me as So Many Scammers Out There These Days That Many People Just Don't Donate as The Figure it's a Scam. It Would Be very Helpful & Mean a Lot To Me and The Cats & Kitten!
