How can you be sure, really?  Of anything?

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again.  There is no such thing as a sure thing.  Just when you think your horse is going to win race… that number eight horse in the purple silks sneaks up on the outside and crosses the finish line first.  By a dang nose.

Or…. with morning’s first cup of coffee in hand….  you go out to get your newspaper, from the front step of you house… just like you have a thousand times before.   But.  You open the door, and it isn’t there.   And your visit to the morning library is calling.

Another not-so-sure-thing.  Just when you thought the Tooth Fairy was going to put a quarter under your pillow… you find out she quits doing that when you turn 23.  It was a terribly rude awakening for me.  Especially since I had just lost a tooth in a Roller Derby Match.  Yep.  It is just the way it goes.  No sure bets.

Don’t believe me?  Okay.  I have proof.  Take….. for example…..  the world’s “perfect food”… which is honey.  It is the only food on earth where something doesn’t have to perish in its creation.   It never spoils.  (They have recently unearthed honey in the ancient pyramids.  It was as fresh as a daisy.)

AND… it is 100% natural.  Or so you thought.  No refined sugar?  Pshhhhaaawwww.  Today I found out the bee’s knees truth.

Honey Bees are going around to hummingbird feeders all over the world, and freebasing the white refined sugar water that’s in them.  It happened right here…. on this very day.

Look at those bees… like some kind of cotton candy addicts, I’ll tell you.  I went out on the deck…. and told them to go find some REAL flowers with REAL nectar.

Wouldn’t you know?  The big drone flipped me off.  It wasn’t very nice of him.  And a bit crass.

So much for sweet, and pure.

But what I want to know is this.  Since that Bee flipped me the Bird…. is that the real truth behind “The Birds and The Bees”?

One begins to question everything after a day like this, I’ll tell you.

“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”  — Robert McCloskey