hail the backyard ninja...
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jw1776, who valiantly dressed in sting-discouraging sweats to disintegrate the hornet's nest out of the upper deck with the garden hose.
He discovered the hornets while jumping on the bottom deck in an attempt to get the raccoons into supersoaker range. Dastardly raccoons lured him over to the hornets' nest, resulting in 2 stings. After treating the stings, he found thick sweatpants and hoodie of cat-bathing caliber. After the ritual song1 he went out to do battle.
The raid on the hornets' nest began with him outside, water on full, nozzle at the ready, and me looking out the sliding-glass door at the nest. It took a while and some circling around to get the angle right, but he soon discovered that the hornets couldn't fly at him against the spray, which helped. No more stings were suffered in the destruction of this nest.
The nest is gone now, and a bunch of hornets are buzzing around where it was located. Doing the hornet equivalent of "what the fuck happened here???", I think. They may be trying to rebuild, not sure. In the meantime, I'm going to think about dinner.
1 Dawn has broke the time has come
Move your feet to a marching drum
We'll win the war and pay the toll
We'll fight as one in heart and soul, etc
jw1776, who valiantly dressed in sting-discouraging sweats to disintegrate the hornet's nest out of the upper deck with the garden hose. He discovered the hornets while jumping on the bottom deck in an attempt to get the raccoons into supersoaker range. Dastardly raccoons lured him over to the hornets' nest, resulting in 2 stings. After treating the stings, he found thick sweatpants and hoodie of cat-bathing caliber. After the ritual song1 he went out to do battle.
The raid on the hornets' nest began with him outside, water on full, nozzle at the ready, and me looking out the sliding-glass door at the nest. It took a while and some circling around to get the angle right, but he soon discovered that the hornets couldn't fly at him against the spray, which helped. No more stings were suffered in the destruction of this nest.
The nest is gone now, and a bunch of hornets are buzzing around where it was located. Doing the hornet equivalent of "what the fuck happened here???", I think. They may be trying to rebuild, not sure. In the meantime, I'm going to think about dinner.
1 Dawn has broke the time has come
Move your feet to a marching drum
We'll win the war and pay the toll
We'll fight as one in heart and soul, etc
