What’s All The Buzz About?

I was walking in the woods of the Country the other day when I heard the loudest buzzing ever — it sounded like some kind of freaky lawn mower/jet engine combination. While any normal cat would run quickly in the other direction, I simply had to take a look. Imagine my surprise when I saw what looked like an alien with a huge, mesh head wearing a white potato sack oufit! Now, I really should’ve run in the opposite direction, but I kept going.

If it really was an alien landing in HandiLand, I wanted to be the first to break that scoop, believe you me!

Well, luckily, just as I was about to welcome the crazy being with a rowdy round of “Greetings, Alien, welcome to HandiLand,” the alien turned around and… it wasn’t an alien at all! It was Brenda Busybody, HandiLand’s chief beekeper. Whew!

“Brenda! You scared me! I thought you were an extraterrestrial being!” I told her.

“Is it the outfit?” she asked.

“A little bit.”

“Well, maybe you can give me a makeover sometime, but right now, I’ve got to rock these beekeeper duds.”

“Oh yeah? Why?”

“Well,” Brenda looked at me with a proud smile, “I’ve been working on somethin very special. It’s right over there…” She pointed to a small hill about twenty feet away. It certainly didn’t look that special. This wasn’t turning out to be the amazing scoop I’d hoped for.

“What is it?”

“It’s the biggest beehive in the world.”

“Huh? Really? It’s only like, two feet tall.”

“Ah-ha! But the rest of it, you see, is underground. It goes down two stories, like an underground car garage. And guess what?”

“What?”

“It’s got two million bees!”

Now, normally I’d REALLY run the other way, but this was a great find and I had to stay put. Two million bees? That had to be a record of some kind. I’d get my story after all. “Seriously?”

“Oh yeah.” Brenda practically beamed under her beekeeper mask.

“And what are you going to do with it?”

“Well, I think I’m going to come out with a brand new line of sweets. I think I’m going to call them: ‘Gimmie Some Sugar, Honey.’ What do you think?”

“I absolutely love it!” I told her. “With two million bees, I think there’ll be enough honey for everyone!”

With that, I prepared to leave Brenda in the forest to tend to her honeybees. Then I remembered something. “And, oh yeah, meet me at JCat next week. We’ll do something about that makeover. White is totally OUT this season.”

That’s all for MEOW!

XOXO

Gossip Queen