Found it! 'The Keys to Paradise' by Robert E. Vardeman

 

I finally found it!

I kid you not nor use hyperbole when I say I was looking for this book for decades.  Granted, it also had to do with the lack of information on my end on where to look and just plain forgetting.

When I was 16, I went to Samoa and stayed with a distant aunt who hosted my mother and I in her home.  Her son had this book and I just started to read the first chapter out of curiosity but was hooked! She offered to give it to me, but I'm a book hoarder and if my mother started offering my book to others, I know I'd freak out so I refused to take it and just remembered the title and the author (or at least the first name)

A friend recently posted about on of their first books their read in the Sci-Fi genre and the comments stirred memory of this book for some reason, then bam! I realized I NOW have the resources to get most books and Lo and Behold!

I found it!  I hope to finish reading this soon but I'm happy that my quest for this book is finally over!

Huzzah!

(I don't say Huzzah, but I can thank Professor Farnsworth for that)

Bee-havior

 You ever find yourself searching randomly online and find something you've not seen in years?

I present to you specimen Bee.

I love beekeeping and thought I did it for a short stint, it left such an impression on me. Getting back to the original question, I stumbled upon this through an old article promoting the University of Hawaii at Hilo Apiary or more like the UH Farm that has an apiary.

Let me just leave this article link here and if you're interested in learning what we did, take a gander.

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This was take in La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona, Spain

All of the pics I submitted were from my travel throughout Europe and Asia. The next one was from the catacombs underground in Paris, France.

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Getting Back into it

 I don't think I've written a new post since 2019 and even then it was something short.

Well, let's give it another go, then, shall we?

I think I stopped writing because Blogger as going through a huge change with Google and they needed to sort out their stuff.  When I first started blogging back in college, my blog at the time was spontaneous but I enjoyed it because it was a space to write about anything. I had blog blobs for some reason but it made me happy. However, once that site closed and was taken over by Blogger or whatever big company took it over, that blog was suddenly, no more.

To say I was a bit miffed was putting it mildly and I took over a decade to come back to the platform. Once the changes started happening once again, I just stopped writing because I thought that the site would no longer exist today.

Glad to say I'm wrong but it still feels...different.

We'll see if I can keep it up this time until something bigger than Google decides to take it over and threaten to close whatever stable norm I create in this Blog iteration...3.0..?
Lost count, really.

Anyhoo, stay tuned...or don't.