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Last spring, I planted a flowering plum tree out in the lawn and it\u2019s been struggling all summer. Wanting to give it a little boost, I asked our neighbor, who has a gigantic pile of horse manure, if I could get some.<\/p>\n

\u201cSure, help yourself,\u201d she said gladly. I intended on spreading the manure around the base of the tree, so the nutrients could seep into the roots.<\/p>\n

The manure pile is about a quarter-mile away, over a road and then a trail to the back of the woods.<\/p>\n

The weather report was for rain yesterday, so I got my trusty wheelbarrow and shovel and started hoofing it to the pile.<\/p>\n

Once I got on the trail to the back of the woods, it became dark because looming rain clouds were forming. Thunder was in the background.<\/p>\n

When walking between the trees, I felt myself breaking through spider webs. A spider was hanging from the edge of my straw hat. I wiped the spider away and wiped the webs off my face then decided to move a fallen tree out of the path.<\/p>\n

\"manure<\/a>After parking the wheelbarrow, I started breaking branches off the old fallen tree and throwing them out of the path. Then I felt a sting. Then I heard buzzing and felt another sting.<\/p>\n

I started running out of the woods and could still hear buzzing. Are the bees following me? No, there was a bee caught in my shirt, near my shoulder.<\/p>\n

By now, I was on the road. I threw my hat off. I felt another sting on my shoulder. I striped off my t-shirt.<\/p>\n

Not wearing a bra, there I was in the middle of the road, nude from the waist up. Modesty flew out the window due to a little bee. It took another ten seconds for that bee to find its way and fly out of my shirt.<\/p>\n

I reluctantly put the shirt back on, not really caring if a vehicle came by. I looked back into the woods and thought, \u201cForget it. I\u2019ll leave the wheelbarrow in the woods tonight and go home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then I rolled my eyes. I\u2019d been reading a book by Robyn Scott, \u201cTwenty chickens for a saddle,\u201d about life in Africa. There was no whining when it came to snakes, scorpions, and getting bucked off horses. Plus, I remembered an idea from Science and Health<\/a><\/em> about how God created harmless creatures.<\/a><\/p>\n

I walked back into the woods, pushed the wheelbarrow to the pile, got the manure, pushed it home, shoveled it around the tree and rain came pouring down.<\/p>\n

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