In The Bath With Bubbly The Bee
While walking through the meadows one early spring day, I came across a
large and furry insect efficiently gathering pollen and nectar.
He was much to busy to notice me and for the most part pretty peaceful,
unless you disturb their nests of course. The
queen bees are usually around fragrant flowers and they are the only ones to
survive the cold winters. The queen
bees are larger than the worker bees, but the one I came across was definitely a
worker bee.
You can find these insects in woodlands, fields, gardens, bogs and where
I'm standing right now, the meadows. I
decided to get a closer look at this worker bee being careful not to get stung.
To my surprise as I bent over closer to him he looked into my eyes and
said; "Can I help you?" "Wow!"
I said. "You can talk!"
"Yes of course I do!" Said
this colorful worker bee. "My
name is Bubbly The Bee, what is yours?"
Well before I could muster up enough words to answer him, he asked me
what I was doing with that old fly swatter.
I quickly told him I was just carrying it to keep unwanted bugs away from
me.
Bubbly gasped and said; "I have a better idea for that old fly
swatter." He asked me if I had
a bathtub. I assured him I had just
taken a bath and really was quite clean. He
said; "Not for you, I just want to take a refreshing bath myself!"
I hurried home, filled up the tub and Bubbly slowly added the bubble
bath. "Now," he said;
"Give me your fly swatter and watch closely."
Bubbly dipped it in the bath water and flung it in the air and out came
the biggest bubbles, right out of my old fly swatter. There were bubbles everywhere!
I watched in amazement at all the bubbles emanating from the little
worker bee. Now I knew how he got
the name "Bubbly The Bee."
Bubbly being quite shy, finished his bath, dried off with the towel,
brushed his tiny teeth and scurried off to bed. All my friends gathered around my house when they had heard
about this fun idea. "What a
sight to see!" One neighbor said as he glanced up in the sky at the
bubbles. "Where did you learn
to do that?" "Well,"
I said. "If I told you, you
probably wouldn't believe me, so lets just say my good friend Bubbly taught
me."
By now word had spread and everyone wanted to take a bath before bed in
order to blow bubbles. I was pretty
tired at this point and climbed into bed myself.
To my surprise, there was Bubbly sound asleep under the sheets.
I covered him up with a blanket and fluffed up his pillow and laid
quietly down on the couch. I had an
interesting dream that night. The
very next day I went out and bought hundreds of brand new fly swatters and put
Bubbly's name on all of them. I
then mixed up some special blueberry bath bubbles and handed them out to all the
neighbors. Before I knew it, the
sky was filled with bright blue bubbles! Bubbly
went back to work in the meadows and smiled as he looked up into the blue sky.
He had finished what he set out to do, and millions of kids everywhere
thanked him for his fun idea!
Copyright
1997 by Author Patti Tricoli
