Bee-Friendly Benches :D

I really didn't want to make a boast about this, but I *seriously* doubt anyone reads this anyway, and I just wanted to write it down as it is a personal accomplishment, so here is where it goes. I guess that's okay, as this is a place for my internal thoughts to come out anyway.

So at work, I have been doing my part to do what feels right to me. This includes NOT using styrofoam cups for my coffee every morning (I bring my own cup), or plastic utensils (I bring in my own fork), and I recycle my cans and the plastic cartons my frozen dinners come in, as well as my co-worker's too now. ;) I don't feel this has a huge impact on the environment but it just feels right for me to recycle as much of my own as is convenient (there's a plastic place very nearby, and my dad's church takes all the cans). Maybe I'll find the metal recyclers around here one day too for the other cans I've been saving...

Well, anyway. Every spring I have noticed that the bumblebees would come out and try to bore nests into the wooden benches along the walkway going into my building. And the maintenance team would be called out regularly to poison them because they would really swarm around a lot and it fel harassing to people trying to walk by, me included! I wrote to Associate Resources with a plea and it was heard. I asked if they could replace them with something non-wooden, to both save the bees, and the cost of maintenance (I knew that'd get 'em hehe). They just replaced them with metal benches. I am so thrilled!!! :)