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.)
Read all the comments, but never got an answer why vegans do not heat honey?
Yes, I’ve been known to run into a few spider webs on my runs (and subsequently look like a total spaz trying to get it off…). As I recently blogged about, bird poop has also been added to my list of “Mother Nature’s Assaults on Caroline. “
When I was younger, I accidentally threw a baseball up and it got stuck in the gutter. So I climb on a chair, reached into the gutter, and right into a wasp nest! Fortunately, I reacted and only had a couple of wasps get me. But my fingers hurt for weeks.
Bee’s hate me. I don’t know why, but they do. They go out of their way to sting me! One of the times I got stung, I was sitting in the middle seat of a car. A bee came in the window, flew by the driver, past me, flew around the person in the passenger seat, back to the driver then made a beeline (har har) for my arm, stung me and flew back out. ARGH!!
Hope the sting feels a bit better soon!
And those pancakes. Mmmm have some of those to make you feel better!!
browniebatterWHATWHATS?
Im making those for the toddler tonight.
I hate running into Spider Webs! Gross.
But I’ve never been stung by a bee *knocks ono wood*
Just got stung by something too! I had a huge welt on my arm for a couple weeks! Love nature, but at a distance please! 🙂
Those pancakes look amazing. Making my stomach growl.
Organic Dreamer — here’s a very good write-up of why vegans don’t eat honey…
http://www.vegetus.org/honey/honey.htm
Hi Katie !
I think you should do what is best for you. I do understand how you feel when you say a blog is hard-work and takes lots of time. But filling a blog should be fun not part of worries. Anyway, even though I can’t follow your blog everyday, I try to read most of your posts ! I really love your blog !
Sorry I posted in a wrong way ! Silly me !
Nature is always out to get me, usually in the form of rocks/roots/logs/holes tripping me and causing me to lose skin. Obviously I’m okay with this relationship, because I keep going back for more. HA!