And in a ‘hold my beer’ moment…
We had a small species of yellowjacket wasps build their paper nest inside my garden seat on the edge of the pond. We’d turned it over yesterday, to try to remove them.
Today, seeing no wasps, I handed my coffee cup to Jane, reached in, grabbed the small nest and removed it.
My eyesight is not what it once was, and it was dark in there.
Yep. There were wasps. Only one nailed me. Two Benedryl, Benedryl spray, and two Sudafed and the pain stopped and the swelling’s nearly gone.
Brilliant, eh?
I feel sorry for the wasps, I really do, but when they appropriate my pondside seat, I’m territorial.
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Randall
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Jul 18, 2013 03:37AM
Well I'm glad you didn't have a real bad allergic reaction Miss Cherryh :-) They're resilient--as a kid I briefly kept a "dead" yellow-jacket nest, that had been supposedly sprayed to oblivion. No such luck. Fortunately I had forgotten it, as kids do, in the lunch bag with which I brought it to my room. I opened the bag in a moment of "gee I think I'll put this on top of my dresser"--there were a few none too happy wasps staring up at me. I lucked out though as I didn't get stung that time, and threw the paper bag in the back yard. The wasps' cousins paid me back for making their kin homeless, many years later as I worked at a park clearing trails and such...
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