Not blacksmith related but...BEES!
my 12 year old son and I decided to explore this old dilapidated ranch house. As i was walking thru the door, I turned to remind him to keep an eye out for snake, nails and bees. No sooner than I said that it started raining bees and it became a full on cloud of bees in a second.
I yelled “bees! Run!” and we took off running. We had to park about 1000 feet from the old house and they chased and attacked us the whole way. Only when we got close to the truck that they seemed to back off. After getting in the truck and calming down. I had 16 stings and he had 4. There were dozens of stingers stuck in my shirt.
Bottom line. I am a US Marine and like to think a mans man but I have never been more scared in my life! They were no joke. If I was older or couldn't run, I might have been in serious trouble. Glad to see my boy ditch me haha
told my boss this story and he told how his wife's 74 yo grandpa was killed by bees a few years ago in kingman. Assume all wild bees are killers !!
thanks for listening