Honey Festival

Every year the town of Lithopolis holds a honey festival. They strive to increase awareness and sales of honey made in the north without the africanized honey bee. But that is not why we went. One reason was the free parking. The other reason was this:

I challenge all readers to guess at what we are eating from the white container. A clue is that we got the item from a tent that was raising money for a day home for the elderly. We also got to see the Lithopolis fire truck up close. Here dad points out a pair of bolt cutters to M.


Here JC drives the engine. His comment? Thank goodness for power steering! The fire engine was big!

The day-long festival culminated in the bee beard. A strong advocate of Ohio honey attached a queen bee to his chin. He then picked up scads of bees and placed them on his chest creating the bee beard. His shirt is plain yellow under all those bees! M was unimpressed, but she has also never been stung by a bee!