You Know Your A Beekeepeer When

• The windshield of your vehicle has at least two yellow dots on it.
• You have answers ready for questions about Africanized bees and the value of local honey in preventing allergies.
• Year eagerly await the phone call from the post office asking you to please come pick up your bees.
• You check out all the honey labels and prices at the supermarket.
• You've gone through the supermarket checkout line buying nothing more than a big load of sugar, and maybe some Crisco.
• You've estimated just how much money you spent to control mites.
• You pick up matches at restaurants, even though you don't smoke.
• Your friends and neighbors think you are the answer to every swarm and bees-in-the-wall problem.
• You are keenly aware of the first and last freezes of each winter.
• There is propolis on the steering wheel of your vehicle and the bottom of your boots.
• There is a bucket of something in your garage that can only be good for smoker fuel.
• You are called "the Bee Man," or "the Bee Lady" by a lot of people who don't know your name.
• You know the bloom period of more local flowers than the state horticulturist.
• You welcome a rainy weekend if it will stimulate nectar production.
• You don't mind driving home with a few honey bees inside your vehicle.
• Your family and friends know exactly what they're going to get for Christmas.
• You don't mow the lawn because the bees are working the weeds.
• You drive down a road and find yourself evaluating the roadside flowers for their honey-producing potential.
• You pull over and check the bees on the wildflowers just to see if they are YOUR bees, AND -- you can tell the difference.
• You come home smelling like a camp fire, and you haven't been camping.
• You saw Ulee's Gold and didn't think there were enough shots of the bees.
• You overhear your 9 year old daughter explaining to her friends how to tie a trucker's hitch.
• The school principal calls to ask that you never again let your child take a drone tied with a thread to school for show and tell.
• You never stop marveling at these wonderful creatures.