Running from the bees in my clothes

So I don't mean to deviate from the last entry on the apple tree Permaculture design that we're installing but this morning I woke up, went down to feed the goats and chickens like I usually do, a little stumbly and still wearing half my pajamas having just rolled out of bed, but I love to be outside first thing in the morning. Anyway, I get up the hill and the goats and chickens have already been fed, watered and their respective homes cleaned. I look over and Jo and Allan are in the Permaculture orchard where we have 6 (soon to be 8) bee hives. Being in a baggy t-shirt and yesterday's pants I wander over to see whats going on. It turns out they have two nukes (a bunch of new bees with a queen in a box) that they were hoping to use to fill the last two hives that we built. We open up the hives and find that there are already bees in there.... no one has a veil and I've got the baggiest t-shirt on with no bra or anything. But I didn't really care, I never wear a veil and I don't usually use the smoker and Jo and I went in bare handed just moving frames around and looking for brood to see if there might already be a queen in this new hive.

So we're poking around in here, seeing what we can see. And our bees are pretty docile, we're moving slowly so we don't totally startle them and things are fine. But then a bee flies into my shirt. And I gently guide it out... but then it seems like a few more are getting in and the first one hasn't quite managed to come out. So I'm starting to appreciate the weight of the situation hah and I start walking away from the hives. And then the bees start landing on my skin, my stomach and elsewhere and I tear my shirt off and go running down one of the seven legs of the spiral in the Permaculture garden. Great way to start your morning. Here is one more photo of one of the frames we looked through:

I can't imagine life any other way... running from the bees in your very clothes forever =) Good morning.