>Frankly the fact that I can no longer make you angry at me is disturbing;
perhaps I lost my bite, having become toothless in my argument.

I could never be angry with you Yoon. We have been friends for years and I
have learned from you as hopefully you have learned from me.

When I was searching for the source of the dark Midwest honey a few years
ago your off list help helped me figure the mystery out. Rising Sun Honey! I 
bet
after all this time you are surprised I remember your honey label. My memory
borders on photographic. I remember how you planted vitex trees around your
farm to off set the sumac.

>I guess
Allan's analogy is apt that at times I belong to Bob's group, regarding for
example, fighting against Neonicotinoids,

Thanks again for your neonicotinoid support. My main objective with the
neonicotinoids was to make members of BEE-L and readers of the American Bee
Journal aware of the battle lines being drawn in the sand between Bayer and
the worlds beekeepers. Hence the article "The Neonicotinoids more questions
than answers".

The article never named Bayer. A point one of their reps commented on
privately. Our conversation would have put a smile on your face Yoon!

I read the article over I bet a 100 times before publication.  All other
authors declined to do a neonicotinoid story. Including my friends Randy
Oliver & Peter Borst. Both I consulted before hand. Peter advised off list
against me doing the article pointing to a researcher discredited and losing
her job over a piece she did on a similar issue. I thanked peter for his
concern but proceeded ahead.

The article brought the most emails & calls of all the articles I have done.
All positive except for several from the direction of  the chemical 
industry.

 Dave Hackenberg (we have been friends for years and was not consulted 
*before* the article was published) was one of the first to call and i could 
tell by his voice he was overjoyed an article finally had been put before 
beekeepers.

The article was as it was met to be which is only a neonicotinoids 101 to
make readers google neonicotinoids and research the problem in depth.

>I wish you enjoy your beekeeping decades and decades more.  I am grateful
and proud being part of this wonderful group.

I doubt I will be around in another decade and certainly not live as long as
my recently deceased friend Waldo McBurney ( 106 years old , given the title
of the oldest worker in the U.S. before his death. His obituary with
pictures written by me will be in next months ABJ & BC)

My father in his last years still passed words of wisdom and I now share
one:

" If I had known I was going to live so long I would have taken better care
of myself"

Keep posting as we appreciate your input Yoon.

bob

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