Bees and A Brave Man

On Monday, we discovered a large population of bees on our water tank. The water tank is too high to really kill the bees so they have just stayed there. This morning, Paul came to the window and said, "Mama, the bees are now in the tree!" I said, "WHAT?!" I put on my shoes and ran outside to find this large mound of bees that looked like mud hanging on our tree. I said, "Paul, how do we kill them?" He said, "Let's go outside the gate and get some grass and burn it with paraffin (kerosene) and it will kill them." So, I did exactly what he said to do. And it killed the bees. We still have some on the water tank, but today's fire exercise killed over half of them. Pray that they would move to the tree from the tank so that we can extinguish them. It is scary to let the kids go outside and play because they just change location so quickly.

You can see the bees on the tree and the flames killing them.
Within a few seconds the bees were reduced significantly.

Then Paul used the rake to lift the burning grass directly to the bees. Zambians amaze me. They know what they have to do to take care of things and do not ever bat an eye or seem afraid.