Today, a day that many of us still remember as Health and Sports Day in Japan.
At BeeCamp, our honeybees are busy bringing in pollen and nectar, skillfully maneuvering around the hornet-protection screen and slipping through its 9 mm mesh with the ease of a gymnast doing a backward roll.
Meanwhile, inside the beekeeper’s head, the questions keep buzzing:
Should I feed them?
What should I do about the mites?
And what if there isn’t enough brood?
I’ve done everything the textbooks say.
Everything the teacher told me.
Everything I’ve watched on YouTube.
I’ve followed all the instructions, one by one.
So it should work. Right?
And yet, bees never seem to do exactly what we expect.
What on earth am I getting wrong?
I try breaking everything down into individual factors—the people, the bees, the equipment, the location, and so on—but I still can’t figure it out.
That’s what happens when you’re working with living creatures.
Things don’t always go by the book.
On another note…
It was a busy day in the middle of the long weekend, but we held a small brunch party at BeeCamp, surrounded by children radiating energy like little suns.
Thankfully, no one got stung, and we were able to share a lovely, relaxed time together.
For us, it was one of those moments when we felt so happy that we could honestly say:
“Who could ask for anything more!?”
BeeCamp has an illustration that captures our vision for the future.
I truly believe that when we put our dreams into words, share them with others, and bring them to life in pictures, we gradually move closer to making them real.
Little by little, perhaps—but we really do move closer to that vision.