{The Bee's Kness...}

Ladies and Gentlemen

as I was running one day with Shaylin in tote (training for my 10k continues...) minding my own business,  I hear this buzzing around my head. I bat at the annoyance and assume its just a fly or something....Then I have the sense to look at where I'm batting and there is a freaking carpenter bee (or June bug, as we call them) following me!

For those of you who may not know what these lovely creatures are, let me fill you in: they are black bees and their bodies are like 10x the size of their freakishly small wings and they throw their weight here and there (especially against glass windows of the house.)

{Like this guy, but ALL black)

I keep batting at it and the dang thing just wouldn't leave me alone. At this point I'm fumbling all over myself, and the street, trying to get this thing away from me!

Finally it retreated and this is what I found I had done to my knees...

 this was taken several days after, so the bruising WAS alot worse...

 Then after this tramatic event passed I realize there is a freaking honey bee on my stroller! Just lazin' around...close to my baby's head. At this point I'm miles from the house...

whats a girl to do??

I tried shoo-ing it, I tried throwing rocks at it, I tried everything! Now you have to realize I'm deathly afraid of ALL bees, so this is very tramatic for me! 

So I rationally and calmy decide I'm just going to keep running...I'm sure it will just fly away soon enough right??

Wrong! 

Not only did it stay there the entire run home, but all night and the next morning as I passed the stroller to get into the car THERE it was just looking up at me! I couldn't believe it!

(and no, it wasn't injured because the house keeper accidentally left the garage door open and it FLEW into the house! we have yet to find it....)

Bees....WTF????