Planted!
I was up very early this morning and outside digging a big hole to plant my new lily. I wanted to get it into the ground while it is still cool.
Since it didn't take long to plant the new lily, I took some time to work in the Iris bed. I've dug up half the Iris and weeded that area thoroughly.
When I reached down and grabbed a clump of grassy weeds to yank out, something bit me on my thumb! I looked down and saw this mass of squirming legs and thought I'd been bitten by a spider! I have it on my mind about the brown recluse spider that bit the woman in Erie while she was gardening. But then I saw that it was a bee. Whew. What a relief! I think it was a small bumble bee. I know it wasn't a honey bee. I don't know why it was down in the weeds and not in a flower! After about 5 minutes, my thumb started to feel OK again. I'm glad it wasn't a spider that got me.
After an hour and a half of working, I decided I'd better come in and get breakfast and then go out and work some more.
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NJ
at 7/21/2005 12:59:48 PM- Doesn't it seem odd to be so grateful that it was a bee that stung you! But compared to the spider bite, it's the better of the two.
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That is an odd place to encounter a bee. Those brown recluses are nasty. Good thing that wasn't what it was!