An unusual hobby
Kelli Lenemond is 16. She's from Texas in the United States.
She has many hobbies.She likes playing volleyball.She also
likes playing the fiddle,and she loves singing.But,Kellie has
an unusual hoppy:beekeeping.
Kellie doesn't work with the bees every day.She checks her
hives about twice a month in the spring,summer and fall
She spends more time with the bees in the winter.There
aren't many flowers for the bees to get food from at this time
of year. So,Kellie feeds the bees a mixture of sugar and water
in the winter.
This is a ty pical day for Kellie when she works with the bees:
8:00 She gets up and eats breakfast.
9:00 She sets out her beesuit.She makes sugar water for the bees.
11:00 She practices the fiddle.
12:00 She makes lunch for her brothers and sisters Than she dose her homework.
3:00 She goes to volleyball practice.
5:00 She and her mom make dinner.
7:00 After dinner,Kellie puts on her beesuit She and her dad go to the backyard.She feeds the bees the sugars water.
Every summer,Kellie takes honey from the hives. Her bees produce about 35 liters
of honey a year.Kellie and her family sellsome of the honey,cook with the honey
and give friends honey,too.
Kellie's friends don't go near the hives. They are afraid.
They don't want the bees to string them.Kellie says they don't understand that bees are
a good thing. She says,"I like standing safely in the middle of a swirling mass of stinging insects.No one else is brave enough!"
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