mountain goats and bees

last nite we finally made it out to the mountain goat brewery for drinks. i can't believe we hadn't made the effort to go there before-- especially last year when i worked at a creche just around the corner from it on fridays (didn't even know that's where it was). its just on a back street in richmond behind victoria gardens. there's a bike fun group that goes every other friday for drinks and i get emails reminding everyone of the "fortnightly goatage". its about a 7km ride from our house but its not a bad ride (and once we have the time change at the end of the month it'll be light enough to ride in along the yarra-- the longer but more scenic route). they even let you park your bikes inside!!! they've set up a pub in the brewery and open every friday to the public. they've just got a few basic tables and some couches (which we scored) and some large crates as standing areas. they've hooked up some speakers and a few heat lamps (i'm sure they're necessary in the winter in the brick building). all of mountain goat's beer is good so you can't really go wrong. the also have a sampler tray where you get four glasses (i think about 1/2 a pot size) on a wood tray and each is a different brew.

and now the bees part of the title (which is a completely different story). this picture was taken just down the road from our house. we were walking home from the shops and we noticed someone had roped off a section of the footpath infront of their house. both me and zac said at the same time to eachother "isn't that illegal to block the footpath like that?" i was about to say unless there was some hazard maybe and then we noticed why the rope was there. all the bees were attached to the fence (it looked like one of those bee beards that those crazy bee people on tv let bees do to them). i don't know if there was something under the bees that made them go there or if they just decided that was a good spot to make a nest and they've been working hard to build there hive (i should go back again in a couple hours and see what they're doing--if they haven't been exterminated by then like i'm assuming is gonna happen).