QUARANTINE - FRAGMENTED MEMORY
RESTORATION PHASE: 0

THE HIVES

I have three hives. My first hive was a startup kit with a brood box and a box for food storage. My bees are Russian-"Yugo" Carniolan bees which are disease resistant. They are especially good for the hobby beekeeper. They are gentle and almost never sting! A beekeeper told me that beekeepers never get arthritis because of the anti-arthritis properties of beestings. I dont know if its true or not, but my arthritis in my knees doesnt seem to have gotten worse since I started. Ive been stung a number of times, of course, but mostly my bees seem unwilling to sting me. I think they know me and I know their ways.

Seven years ago I started making my own honey and selling it at the Farmers market.
Click HERE for information on my honey and how to purchase it.

I have three hives but my first hive is still my best honey producer. Beehives take a while to get established, and each hive has its own personality! My hives are traditional Langstroth hives, which are boxes

.

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY Phasmids. I have to signal, I can't stay stranded here. But if I somehow am operating behind enemy lines, I don't want to draw attention to myself, either. Therefore, I shall be a phasmid. Phasmidia Elegans, they call me-scourge of the sandbox. God I hate it here. Phasmids. 

MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY
Of course the crew won't come for me if they're all dead. If they're all dead and I alone am left to tell the tale.

I'm crying, and my tears are made of sand.
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY

FIELD EXPEDIENT DIRECTION FINDING

"Find a straight stick about a meter long and stand it upright on fairly level upright ground. Mark the tip of the shadow cast by the stick: wait 15 minutes: mark the shadow again. Draw a line from the first mark through the second and some way beyond. Stand with your left foot on the first mark and your right on the end of the line. In the northern hemisphere, you will now be facing north, and can recall the other directions by their relationship to north. In the south, contrariwise."

Hm.

No stick.
No sun.
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY

First thing I should do, make a signal. 

The crew will come get me if they can. 

Head is full of sand and it's hard to think. 

But they won't stop looking for me.  


I'M HERE I'M HERE I'M HERE 


I'd fight for them. I'd die for them, any 

of them. I would never abandon the crew.  

They won't abandon me. They will come. 

They will come for me.
MAYDAY MAYDAY MAYDAY

Those are pearls that were her eyes:
Nothing of her that doth fade
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange

Eight legs (I feel them walking on me) and how many voices-three? Five? Eight?-I am become a most delicate monster indeed.

What a brave new world-sand and darkness, sand and loneliness, sand and emptiness, sand and the spider-what a brave new world, that hath such monsters in it.