Hornets and Archives

They sting like crazy.  Or maybe they are just stingingly crazy.

However you say it, hornets/wasps are not fun.  A week or so ago I was mowing the lawn and I felt a bite on my leg.  The culprit disappeared.  My leg felt a little numb around a nickel sized area.  That passed within a day or so.

Yesterday I was again bitten.  Mowing the lawn.  By the same swarm.

This time I found the nest.  A hole burrowed into the ground was constantly experiencing incoming and outgoing flight patterns.  They buzzed more fiercely as I approached.  Needless to say I backed off.

Backed off all the way to the store.  Where I purchased some hornet/wasp spray.  Tonight I will seal up their hole and hopefully take care of the threat.

But this morning the bite was very itchy.  And the swollen area increased in size.  So much so that I ventured to our doctor’s office.  An unusual thing for me.

How unusual, you ask?  Well, in the year I have been here, I’ve never been to the clinic.  The search was on by the receptionist to find any previous files.  She checked the  file room down the hall.  Apparently there was a Ron Baker, but the file was in the “archives’ in the basement.  She wandered down the stairs and returned with a thin file.

I had lived here from 1976 – 1980.  My previous file contained one page — probably just one visit for insurance purposes.  Four years and one visit?  That is basically the ratio for my doctor visits over the intervening 30 years.  You will not find a lot of paperwork on me at doctor’s offices.

Now the file has two pages. 

Amazing what hornets can bring back into being!!

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  1. MaryAnne

    Our grandson has had an experience with wasps that he willnot soon forget — duringing play he and Cole climbed over a pile of wood — Kaleb was the one who stepped right on a wasp nest — by the time Karen (our daughter) reached him , he had 25 bites to his head and we never counted the bites to his legs and arms — God had heard Kaleb’s prayer – for he was truly protected — very little swelling and thankfully he was not allergic. Interestingly, Kaleb always ends his prayers with ” and keep everyone safe’.

    We are praising God for His protection.

    MaryAnne

  2. wv

    Since wasps and hornets seem territorial, hanging brown paper lunchsize bags filled with newspapers in the area will discourage other wasp nests being built. Also hanging pop bottles filled with an attractant will catch wasps. A cool way is to cut the top off the 2L pop bottle, about an inch past the curve in order to make a funnel, and then you invert this into the bottle and staple to join, add your sweet stuff putting some on the outter rim, and then hang with string (also stapled to your bottle). And then there’s boric acid powder….Just thought I’d share…:)

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