Allen, you said:

>Because possibly of its very difficulty, unpredicability and 
>incomprehensibility, beekeeping becomes a way of life rather than a job.

For some, but not for others.  My father was that way about dairy farming. 
Not me.  But I never found a path with a "heart", so I worked at a job all 
my life.  He died broke, and I won't.  No regrets.

Walter

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