Humph, I don’t know. At this moment, there is no love between me and the bees.
Well, a few days ago, a new running buddy decided to join me. But this so-called “buddy” isn’t someone with whom I ever wish to run again. I was on my way home, happily running under the shade of the trees, when suddenly I felt this horrible pain in my shoulder. Apparently a bee had run right into me (or I ran into him?)! It was definitely a full-on sprint the rest of the way home!
This?
No. More like this:
Makes those thieving seagulls seem like angels… but why does nature keep attacking me?!
As for the question posed in my title…
I’m unsure where I stand on the “veganism and honey” issue. More bugs probably die in the making of my organic kale or broccoli! So I don’t go out of my way to eat foods with honey, but I also won’t flip out if I happen to consume it accidentally.
(P.S. When I got home, I discovered there was no stinger in my arm, therefore it was probably not a bee who stung me, but a wasp or hornet. Bees leave stingers; wasps and hornets apparently do not. So it seems there’s no need to hate bees after all.)
And I complain when I come back from my summer runs covered in tiny black gnats. At least they don’t sting!
Wowy those pancakes look good! I could go for some right about now. 🙂
Oh no Katie, a wasp/hornet sting? That *sucks*. I’m allergic to those… found out when I was swimming peacefully one day and SWAM right into a few wasps who were sort of lazing on the water’s surface. Yeowch.
Hope your shoulder’s feeling better! Isn’t it ironic when vegans get attacked by nature? :O
Love you! (non-creepy way, of couuurse, hehe)
I used to be severely allergic to bees and wasps, so there’s not much love there for me either. I also got pooped on by a flock of geese. That was worse than you’d think. I still love nature, though, regardless of what it does to offend me!
Poor you! HOpe the shoulder is better. I’ve had my share of run-ins with spider webs, too. 😉
I was standing on a pier when I was about 8 years old and a pelican landed on back! It thought I was part of the railing! I still have faint scars, ouch! I’ve also been dive bombed by birds protecting their nests at the beach! Coastal birds have no love for me…
Hope your shoulder feels better!
I would love to hear more responses about vegans and not eating honey!
yum! yum! yum! i’m in love with those pancakes 🙂 i have stepped on a bees nest (or one of those stinging bugs) while running. it was NOT cool.
Ouch – I don’t remember the last time I was stung by a bee (or a hornet, or a wasp…). I don’t know if I’ve ever actually been stung *knock on wood*! Mosquitos attack me sometimes though, and I don’t really like that…
super cute bee picture (well, the one of you…not the angry bee one!)
I just got spider webbed on a run last night. The stringeyness was all over me, even though it was invisible. I’m sure I looked like a hallucinating freak trying to de-web myself LOL. Your choco pancakes look heavenly. Can you make me breakfast? hehe..
No joke–I got attacked by a bee yesterday going to my car for the first day of school!! Musta been the OD of perfume perhaps 😛
Oh man, I have a HUGE phobia of bees/wasps/hornets/anything with a stinger & wings. I think it all dates back to my childhood when I innocently stuck my hand in a big blue mailbox to send a letter and was stung by a bee. Yuck. I’m sorry you had a “run-in” (ha ha ha) with an unfriendly insect!
Ouch! Bees can hurt!
I have been pooped on, down my face….. in New York City! Talk about embarrassing!
And brownie batter pancakes?!! Holy Moly, I’m trying those babies!
Aw man, your poor shoulder 🙁 I used to get stung by yellow jackets all the time when I was younger, and once I got stung on the lip! Not so fun. I run into spider webs all the time when I run, especially if I’m trail running.
I hope your shoulder feels better!
Ouch! Wasps hurt the most for sure – I swear when I was little I got stung by every insect possible!
First off OUCH!! Second, congrats on winning the contest over at EAtnvegan from Diann. How cool. Love the pancakes. :o)
In an answer to your question, the seagulls got me too. Not only dive bombed us and took our lunch, one of them pooped on me! Trust me seagull poop is gross, so gross that DH bought me a new shirt right then and there. No saving the other one.
Once when I was working late, alone in my office, I felt something drop on my head…it was a gargantuan spider – probably about 1.5 inches wide and heavy. I’m horribly afraid of spiders anyway, so I had a mild heart attack and decided I was done working for the night.
According to the bleeding hearts at PETA, vegans don’t eat honey because to do so would exploit the bees and their labor. PETA also seems to feel that it damages the bees in some way to have their honey taken away, but that doesn’t make much sense since honey is farmed from the same broods of bees…
Finally, wow on those pancakes. My berries and yogurt are becoming less attractive every day and it’s almost completely your fault (the fact that their growing season is nearly over accounts for about 5%).