She's baaaaaack...

Hey Kiddos! Have you missed Ms. Jiggy? I know I have! I was reading through some of the back posts from past trips, and man, Jiggy is quite the rascal. Such a pip.

So I come to you once again, not from Central America, but East Africa. Way better in so many ways. Like, here they haven't killed all the wildlife and chopped down all the trees. It seems that they have yet to discover the megamall - definitely a plus. They have however firmly situated themselves at the bottom of the used clothes food chain, which is charming as hell. For example, last night I went out to check for animals in the front yard and stood there silently and uncomfortably next to the two guards for the house. (Yes, two are needed, who is going to protect us from the lions?!) Anyway, as we sit there, I take a gaze at one of the guard's jackets. Naturally it's a jacket from some tire place, worn without any irony -- but the best part is that the name of the jacket was "Gene the Machine" which I found infinitely funny. I immediately started to giggle, to make the situation more uncomfortable, and then had to retreat to the house, because there was no way I could explain my strange giggling outburst.

I myself have come to enjoy a different garb... that being a beekeepers suit. My host has two beehives that he is trying to produce honey in, and because he is so tall, he can't fit in the beekeeping suit. I bravely agreed to give it a go this afternoon. For those of you that are sitting comfortably in your offices and fantasizing about the quaint life you could have beekeeping in VT, let me wake you up. It sucks. It was hot, and those bees apparently don't like it when people start taking apart their house and fishing around for their honey. They hate it, in fact. They get doubly pissed when you kill some of their brothers, and then they attack. My host sadly got stung 3 times, once inside the nose. I unfortunately got swarmed and had to walk around for 30 minutes trying to get the bees off me! Finally they went away when I crouched down by the fire and smoked them off. Phew.