I dreamt that you were twisting through seven suns of gold and the gypsy was insisting

that story must be told I came two in the morning but I took it as a warning that you might be a treasure.

I could touch but never hold.

Hi, everybody.

Welcome to the Soberful podcast.

This is Veronica Valley.

And this is Chip Summers.

And we're really glad that you've been listening to us so far.

We're two people who are in

long-term recovery, and we work with people to help them overcome an alcohol problem and live

their best life. And we have a bunch of stuff to discuss on today's podcast. But I want to check in

with you, Chip. How has your week been so far? My week's been quite interesting, really. I don't know whether I've mentioned before, but I keep bees. You do. I love that you'd keep bees. Yeah, no, it was a lifelong dream that I've always wanted to do. Yeah, no, absolutely. I don't know why. I don't know where it came from, but absolutely been something I've always wanted to do all my life. And in this

house that we have now, which we moved into a few years ago, we have a backyard that enables us

to have a few hives. Did you have to like do training? Isn't it dangerous? Yeah, obviously if you

get attacked as in the movies by a swarm of angry bees, it can be very dangerous. But if you handle it properly

and wear the right gear, I did do a bit of training. But luckily, about four doors down in my

village lives a guy who used to keep hundreds of beehives. So he's my sort of bee sponsor, mentor.

So it's like you have a bee guru. I have a bee guru three doors down. Oh my God.

And we collected a whole lot of honey. We collected seven kilos of honey last weekend. Do you sell it?

Not really. I give away a lot and we eat it all. Last year's crop had just come to an end.

Wow.

I've now taken a whole lot and I'll get a whole lot more.

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