We have a flowering plant (we call it artificial bamboo but I'm not sure what it really is) that grows along the front of the house. It grows about six inches a day when it's growing and then blooms thousands of these tiny yellow flowers right about this time of year. The green leaves are great in the front of the house and the little flowers smell nice, but they do bring the presence of LOTS of bees. In my childhood, I stepped on bees a lot while running barefoot and got randomly stung by them occasionally. Once I even got one stuck in my hair just by walking out the front door and got quite the sting on my head. I think all the stings have resulted in an allergy-I get baseball sized swelling if I get stung now.
It seems as though this tradition is going to continue. Poor Taylor got stung for the first time last week while playing in the yard. It was in the center about where her ankle bone is:
She is quite the trooper and was fine just a few minutes later:
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