Wasps Nest

One day as we are walking up the driveway, we spot a dead bird on our lawn. Interesting....seeing as that is not a normal occurrence. Ben happened to go out to check it out and for some odd reason he decided to look up into the tree right above the bird. And there in the tree is a freakin' giant wasps' nest. Umm....I think we figured out what happened to the bird!

Ben decides that he is going to cut it down, but after receiving much advice from his dad about the proper way to do this, he decides to spray it with poison first. To be on the safe side, he dressed in long pants with socks pulled up over his pants, long sleeves, hat with ear coverings, gloves, scarf, and goggles.

The can of poison said it sprayed from up to 27 feet away. Whew.....a good safe distance. Now, mind you, he had us standing in the front door so he could run inside when 500,000 wasps swarmed him. He also made me have my phone handy in case we needed 911. Our neighbor was outside though and he is a firefighter so Ben all of a sudden felt safer :) Our neighbor and Ben pumped themselves up for this wasp fest that was sure to come tumbling out at the first spray.

It was a bit anti-climactic, seeing as the spray only sprayed about 10 feet and only about 4 wasps flew out, but I told Ben my true pleasure would be posting the photos on the blog.