Biscotti and Bees

The kids wanted to have lunch in the back yard, but when I placed the little card-table, they said "Mommy, that is too close to the bees!" I reminded them that the garbage cans were way accross the yard and the bees wouldn't bother them at all... when they pointed out the bamboo flowering a few inches from the top of my head!

...and upon further examination I realized that there were about 15-25 bees on each shoot. So I promptly moved the table into the kitchen. This new revelation helped me to remeber Steven's bee sting the day before and I took a mental note to keep the kids inside until the bees stopped being quite so interested in our bamboo... and promptly grabbed my camera to see if I could get some macro (really really close)shots of the bees. It was not until I stepped back into the house that I realized just how close I had been to at least a hundred or more bees.... YIKES!




So... thinking on more indoor activities we accepted a friend's invitation to teach us how to make Biscotti (a long dry cookie that you tradittionally eat with coffee). We had a blast - made a mess, and ate way too many of them when they were finished.






Biscotti trivia...
"What exactly does Biscotti mean anyway?" Check out Wikipedia at this link http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biscotti