The following is the opening paragraph of Farley Mowat's book "The Boat Who Wouldn't Float". Reading it brought a smile to my face and I thought that any beekeeper would enjoy it. " I have a ingrained fear of auctions dating back to the third year of my life. In that year my father attended an auction as a means of passing an aimless afternoon, and he came away from it the bewildered possessor of thirty hives of bees and all the paraphernalia of an apiarist. Unable to rid himself of the purchase he became, perforce, a beekeeper, and for the next two years I lived almost exclusively on a diet of soda biscuits and honey. The gods smiled on us and all of the bees died of something called foul brood, enabling us to return to some semblance of a normal life." **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) **************************************************** * General Information About BEE-L is available at: * * http://www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l/default.htm * ****************************************************