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In a flash of temporary insanity, I decided to revamp the BeeStoic.ca site and start to use it more as a platform for some commentary. There seems to be lots to talk about in the world and all of it crazy.

One of the big things I have learned lately is that if you think you have a better way to do something you are probably wrong. Now this is not always the case. But in the areas of agriculture, sigh, I am beginning to see that it is an uphill battle to succeed. This year has been proof positive of that. 

My spring started off well with my bees making it through the winter very well. Then, things awoke and got hungry. Namely bears.  See the pictures below as to the evidence of a young hungry bear and what they can quickly do to a few unprotected hives.  

Anyway, that was July 4 of 2016. Two weeks earlier,  June 16, a hungry weasel attacked, killing all 60 of my chickens in one blood thirsty night.

What can be learned? Nature will kick you in the ass when you least expect it.  Or we can learn that, what can be taken, will be,  It is the natural law of things. If you have too much. It will be shared. 

Jut this morning I heard on the CBC that there is a surplus of funds in a pension account for the province of Ontario.  Guess what? Natural law states that it must be shared. Guess who gets to share it with the OPSEU members? Big Brother that's who.  Just like nature has the last word, there is no getting away from the Government.  They are counting the surplus there as theirs and are using it to write down the Province's deficit to the tune of 1.5 billion dollars. (source) What??? That does not even include the other 10 billion that the government has been claiming for the past dozen or so years.  Who owns the surplus?  

My stoic lesson for today.  If you have extra - be careful.  You never know who might be lurking out there to take a piece.  

More to come.  Bee Stoic.