-Posted by Isaac

I realize, it’s hard sometimes.

Sometimes opinions get in the way of information, don’t they? So do politics. And ideologies.

Case in point: climate change. It’s happening, it’s going to get worse, and it’s caused by us. Those are the facts. 100% Settled science. We know this, but it’s still a debate isn’t it? Still a fight— an impossible inertia to actually act on anything. Opinions and alternative theories abound. Flying rampant. But the facts don’t seem to care about our opinions, our politics.

Still we remain devoted to our tribe. Especially on Facebook.

A friend of mine put this photo on Facebook yesterday. Yet another flood where there’s never been a flood. I notice we use the word ‘unprecedented’ a lot these days.

I have a bee yard about a quarter mile from that cemetery, so today we went to check out the damages.

Thankfully the bees are still in California. And as it turns out, the water got high enough to move the hive stands, but not high enough to float my supers away.

I’m angry at myself. Why not move that yard? I know the weather is crazier every year, yet I know I won’t do anything. Stubbornness? Wilful ignorance? I tell myself… what are the chances it could happen… again?

It’s too hard to take action. Even being informed. It’s too hard.

Hmmm… could this apply to our pandemic predicament? I think it does.

So here we are, 2020, on societal quarantine, distancing ourselves, disinfecting everything, hoarding food, TP, ammo, whatever, like it’s the end times.

Aside from me being angry, what’s going on in Honeyrun world? Well, we try to find ways of coping with this brave new world.

As it turns out, we’re doing pretty much the same thing we did in the good old days.

Life before the pandemic. Finding arrowheads.

Hiking the hills.

Birding and bird nesting.

Taking baths.

Finding ways…

…to deal with it…

…and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get lucky this time.