I've typed, untyped, detyped, retyped and can't find a way to explain things that would be right for this board. ... getting in the weeds or telling too much ... another try
To me, this is a jobsite .. not my property, not his. I had cut out the wild hive from the soffet and extending into the attic about (5' long)... it just kept going and going.. My hive was established with the bees from the wild hive. I bobbled the "bee vac and released a bunch of bees.. those went back to where the wild hive was and started sucking honey. Originally I had my hive closed up but the entrance was covered with a 1"x 2" that I hadn't screwed down and the bees moved it while i was doing other things. They started going out and coming back and.. bringing more bees ... so i put my hive as close to the wild hive site as I could, and left it like that. Had plans to pick it up saturday but owner wanted some work done on her residence that day.
Owner/customer seems to be straight-up all aces lady. I don't know what she knows about any of this.
Mad? I'm not mad at the guy. I have to have some semblance of respect for someone to be able to get mad at them; just disgusted by the waste. I started to get mad, but it just evaporated. I had also left him a note about bees etc. and he had torn it up and dumped the pieces on the floor repair. .. like a child had thrown a temper tantrum... also marks in the grass where had wheeled around in the mule fast coming up to the area by the hive... really strange... Mostly, I was in awe, I guess.
I think I understand it; him, that is. But I really don't want to. That's a really strange feeling for someone that's usually manically driven to try to understand things.
"All the work" isn't bothering me either. All in all, I think I learned a lot doing it and the ones left seem to be ok. It just kinda sucks that when I started to like the little buggers, they get sprayed.