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Jonathan Schmit: A Significant Person In My Life

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A significant person in someone’s life can help transform that person they are today in either a positive, or a negative way. Jonathan Schmit has had a significant impact in my life. Jon was not family, not a neighbor, nor close friend, Jonathon Schmit was my bee mentor, and a great one at that.
The first time I was introduced to Jonathon was by my talkative aunt Wendy Gessell. Jon was a short stalky man about ‘5, 7’ he had a round, cheerful looking face and if you glanced down at his clothes you would be able to presume that he was a country boy. The torn, worn out jeans, the huge, black barn boots, an oversized t-shirt, and lastly a camouflaged hat that he would never be caught dead without to cover his buzz cut, dark brown hair. Jon had a remarkable personality in my opinion, he was always very patient and knew an endless amount of knowledge about bees and how they live, act, and naturally why they do what they do. He was always a somewhat intimidating man, because of all the knowledge he possessed over the many years of bee …show more content…

July 5th a terribly humid day, I walked into my backyard to retrieve an empty glass jar that had once contained sugar water, but when I arrived to my backyard it was sucked dry by the bees. Before I left to fetch more sugar water for the bees to drink, I noticed that there was an abnormal amount of worker bees in the air buzzing frantically around the hive. After awhile of observing the bees and looking inside the hive, I was still not sure what the complication was with my bees. I realized that I needed help with the mystery that was happening inside this hive, I called Jonathon “ Hi Jon, this is Mikenzie, I think there is something wrong with my hive. The bees are flying everywhere and there are not many inside the hive. Also I found these huge almost peanut looking shells in the

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