Haagen-Dazs Help The Honeybees

It’s cherry blossom season, there are a ton of flowers on my trees, and I’ll be DAMNED if they don’t produce any fruit this year.
Last year, around this time, I was so excited to see TONS of cherry blossoms on my trees. I thought, oh MAN am I going to have a ton of cherries in a few months! Lucky for me, I have a great tree that can actually produce fruit — right here in Redwood City. Growing up in Hawaii, where you just can’t grow cherry trees, having a fruit-​bearing cherry tree is like a dream come true. The thing may as well be sprouting five dollar bills, with how expensive cherries are and how much I love them.
Well, to my disappointment, my cherry tree only produced about 3 cherries last year. I couldn’t believe it. What the heck happened??? I went to M&M nursery and asked Matthew what to do. (Note: sadly, I learned yesterday that he passed away in February. I am so sad — he was awesome).
Matthew told me that the reason I didn’t get any fruit is because there aren’t enough bees around to pollinate the fruit. I made a note to myself that the next time I saw those cherry blossoms, I’d have to go and get some bees from a garden center or order them online. When I dropped by M&M nursery, Matthew’s brother was there, and suggested I find a local beekeeper who might be able to let me «borrow» some bees to pollinate my cherry flowers. Due to the dissapearing-​bee epidemic, bees are getting harder and harder to find!
I googled beekeepers and one of the things that popped up was this haagen daaz ad that’s designed to raise awareness for how important bees are. This site is really awesome! It’s beautifully put together — the web designer did an outstanding job. You can create a cute little e-​card, and dress up a bee to spread the words to your friends, to raise awareness about the bee problem. I think Haagen Daaz may be even donating some money to research this problem and come up with an answer (a smart move, as they have tons of fruity flavors that are somewhat «bee-​dependent»!).
Anyway, I wanted to forward the card to a bunch of friends, particularly friends with kids or those who teach kids, because I think it could be a really good educational tool.
Did you know, for example, that one out of every three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination? Or that honey bees are responsible for $ 15 billion in US agricultural crops each year??? Hooray for the little guys!
I typed out a good-​sized message to my friends, explaining why I was passing on this card, and what haagen daaz is trying to do, etc., and entered in my friends’ email addresses, one by one.
And then I made the mistake of hitting the «preview card» button. It took me to a page that did NOT preview the card. There was no «go back to card» type button so I could hit «send.» I was basically floating in outer beespace with no way to retrieve the 5 minutes of typing I’d just done. I tried all kinds of things but basically I had no other option but to re-​type my whole message and re-​send the card. Aaagh! There are few computer issues i have that drive me more nuts than having to re-​type or re-​enter a ton of stuff you just wrote out, because there was some computer glitch that wiped it all out.
I would give 5 stars if it weren’t for that «little» issue. I still think these bee cards are totally worth passing on… just stay away from the preview button!