Not my picture, but, close enough. I killed a Bumblebee and I'm ashamed of myself. I was working in the yard, in the rain, and it got down my shirt. I didn't know what it was, so I went in the house to look at my back. I took my shirt off and it was a small Bumblebee. I'm still freaked out about that wasp sting I got, which was pretty bad. The Bumble was in the shirt. I found it, but, it was too quick to get in a jar. So, I wacked it. My reasoning was, it will hide and if we sit on it or push against it, it will sting. Instead of killing it, I knocked it's stinger out, which means it will die anyway. It landed on Lissa's scarf and I took it outside. Bumblebees are nice and decent critters who do nothing, but, good. They won't sting you unless you hurt them. You can even pet them. I've shown Lissa how to do it. They're furry and cute. But, I'm allergic to bees and I was afraid of it in the house, hiding. So, I took the life of something that never meant me any harm and I feel like a shit bag whore monger. It has ruined my afternoon. You may make fun of me now.
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I agree, bumblebees are nice & normally don't bother people. But, if you are allergic ... you can't take chances with them. The Kid & the two huge pups were home this weekend. Pups were playing tug in the yard on the day they were leaving. Thundering over a yellow jacket nest in the ground (which we didn't know was there). Kid & dogs each got stung over 30 times. Damn bees kept swarming them. By the time they were able to get back in the house I'm giving each of them 4 benedryl. She is now under orders from Dr. Mom to get epi pens for herself & the pups. I did a mass extermination last night on the nest. There is still a little activity today, so I'll repeat after dark. Must have killed off enough of them last night cuz some critter came and dug up part of the nest ... chunks of honey comb in the yard (raccoon?)
don't feel bad DD!!! you didn't do it on purpose and i'm sure you apologized to him and i know you feel awful!! if i found a bee, wasp, etc in my house i'd have to kill it ASAP or get it in a container to get outside immediately because Pan is deathly allergic to them....
i've got dozens of 'em on my butterfly bush....the bubble bees are loving it...
CJ---you should jar that honey! call it Duck Honey or something....hah!
No, it was an accident. My SIL sprays my daughters flowers because of the bees! It made me so mad and I told him why. He said he was afraid they would sting the doggies. Anyways, that was deliberate and pissed me off. I always call bumblebees, teddy bears. Cuz they are. I found a grand daddy long legs in my trash at work when I was about to take out my bag, i snagged him by a leg and took him outside to a shrub. So, see? Lose 1, gain 1. I would have killed him if I hadn't seen him in that bag. He was probably after my apple core from lunch. I did kill a big fat fly today, on purpose. I don't feel bad about that. I wish I would see a bee. They are scarce here now. The farmers have killed them off.
rox
CJ, thats a crazzzy story. They picked a bad place to nest. Never heard of that.
Not crazy at all, very common. Yellow jackets will & do nest in the ground, google it. Every year I have at least one nest in the yard. One year I ran over a nest with the lawn mower & got stung 3 times.
Tia, I was thinking the honey could be named Boxer Blossom Honey. It's kind of a play on words re the younger one's breeder.
Boxer Blossom Honey is a really good name!! package it in cigar boxes! :) Eddie will take one!!
Not my vintage Cuban cigar boxes!
I've had yellow jackets nest under the front step (concrete block sitting on the ground) three times now and once right in the ground in the grass beside the step. It's hard not to aggravate them even when all you're doing is walking in and out of the house.
the local cigar box then?
i sometimes kill an insect purely because i can, and then ask myself why did i rob it of its life like that and then feel bad. but i also save a lot of insect lives as well. i'm often found giuding insects trapped in sinks or the bath, to safer places. i do regularly kill the green caterpillars that demolish everything in the garden. i tell them i'm sorry for cutting them out of their life cycle, but then i squash them. i'm dam sure most people would consider me totally mental.
No, no, no ... that box is over 100 years old. All of those boxes are between 70 - 100+ years old.
U guys aren't as crazy as I am. I love these stories. I remember once a big rock was in the road by our house, so I had to really slow down to miss it. My kids were with me. I said "Excuse me, sorry", as I swerved around it slowly...to a damn rock in the road! OK? Now, thats nuts. We all cracked up at that one, who says that? I am really crazy guys. Geesh, worried about being rude to a damn rock!
But I ain't so sweet in the morning on my way to work if i get behind a tractor or school bus, nu-uh! I get loony!!! Scary, could stroke out!! LOL . I have had big horse flies ride all the way to town on my windshield 55 mph before. Crazy ass daredevils!
rox
well that's why i said just package eddie's honey in a cigar box! :)
Eddie is not getting my grandfather's antique cigar boxes!!! He's not getting my antique rocking horse! He's not getting the antique vanity! He's not getting the vintage sled! They're mine, all mine!
the saw??? though he has jt do those things.....
i'm the same way with my royal books....mine all mine....and eddie with his grinches, well the few he has left....he shall rebuild!!
DD,
Be kind to yourself. You are being too hard on yourself. You are one of the good guys. I know an assh@le when I see one, you're no assh@le...I don't care what Crabbie says. lol that was a joke
Beth
No not the antique two man saw... or the marble top dresser, the antique trunk, the antique thread box or the 135 y.o. lincoln logs! NADA
Or the powder horns!
oh i'll take the lincoln logs! or the door bell cover---seriously, i love that!!! i want my place to be all 70s like and that's perfect!!! 70s on the 1st floor, 80s on the 2nd floor.....
the mirror???
Now I'm really confused. I'm like that a lot lately.
1)I thought yellow jackets were wasps. Since when do wasps make honey?
2)Why would CJ give Eddie her antique
cigar boxes? Are they related?
3)And you can't take them with you CJ. So why not give them to Eddie.
4)And Miss Tia, who would you leave your royal books to if not Eddie.
5) And why is poor Eddie being picked on?
6) Who the hell is Eddie anyway?
7) Dibs on the antique trunk---Eddie doesn't need it---he will have the royal books and the antique cigar boxes!!!!!
CJ, that story was hard to hear. They can do so much damage to a body. I have a soft spot, hole, in my yard and I am scared to death of it. I hope it's a big snake den. (Please let it be a big snake den.) Get some epipens.
Rox, I happen to like people who apologize to a good rock.
I thought yellow jackets were wasps too. Maybe it's a regional name? I have to look that up. Here a yellow jacket is NOT a honey bee. Honey bees are good and won't hurt me. Yellow Jackets can kiss my ass. The only wasps that are good are the mud daubers and black foots.
Beth..lol. You know that's true.
I want to see these cigar boxes now.
...and there's still not much excuse for what I did. Bumble stings don't hit me like a wasp sting. The only times I've been stung by a Bumble was when I was haying and they were in the hay. Always on the arm, where it presses against them. I still feel like a shit bag.
Yellow jackets are wasps & nasty little buggers. They aren't known to swarm, but these did. Guess the dogs playing so close to the nest really made them angry. The Kid & both dogs had over 30 stings each. Don't know if I'm using the correct term, but the stuff in my front yard looks like honey comb. I've seen it before after I killed off a nest & a critter (raccoon?) then digs it up. YJs get nastier when it's a hot, dry summer.
Jane, Eddie got dragged into this because he & Tia were at my house last week. He's got a good eye & spotted the antiques in my house. No clue if any of these have monetary value, all freebies to me. Stuff that's been in my family for generations. No, I won't be taking my stuff with me, but I have a kid who wants it. So, sorry Eddie. Tia does get my retro doorbell, tho.
YEAH!!!! I get the doorbell!!! :) Jane, Eddie wouldn't have a clue what to do with my royal books or have any interest in them....they're to go to my friend pam first and then to the kent state library second....eddie is my best friend.....
that trunk is really awesome Jane! but yeah!!! i get the doorbell!!!
DD---get CJ to send in pix of the cigar boxes!! they're really neat! and the lincoln logs and the trunk!! (but NOT my doorbell!!)
Now I want to see the damn door bell. LOL.
CJ, you have no idea how scary that is to me. 30 stings?? WTF? No ER visit?? That would mean death to me. I doubt I would make it to the ER ten blocks away.
Now I want to see the door bell too!
We all want to see that door bell!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Trust me, you don't want to see it. It's an ugly 1960s Nu-tone plastic door chime. I pretend it doesn't exist.
DD ... it was very scary for the first hour after they got into the house. Four benedryl each & I was watching them constantly. Takes about a half hour from my house to the hospital ER ... but only about 5 minutes for an ambulance to get here.
That door chime is AWESOME!!! and it's wallpapered to match the entry hall!! WIN!!!
Is the chime the kind that has a beige plastic rectangular box usually found above the door frame? Some had a brown or gold design--maybe 3 angular lines or a zig-zag pattern?
You could always see them in the Avon ads. Remember "Ding-dong, Avon calling!"
if you are careful you can even caress a bumblebee.
Wait for it pushing its head deep into the flower - you might no carefully pet its back. It will raise two legs - pull away and wait for it to lower them again, now you can pet again.
Just don't let it get hold of your finger.
it is beige plastic, not above her door though, on the opposite wall....has little pillars.....and it's MINE!!! YEAH!!! :)
When I strip the ugly 1980s wallpaper off... do you want it too? When we bought the house it had white & gold flocked wallpaper in the entry hall & up the stairs. Retro 1960s!
I've googled everything I can think of & am not finding one like mine. Did find a 'walnut finish' plastic one that is similar, but it has a clock built in the center.
oh that white & gold flocked wallpaper sounds AWESOMESAUCE!!!
see, i've got an eye for unique retro pieces whereas eddie can spot antiques! :) and i get mine!! HAH!
A yellow jacket builds a best like any other wasp. The 'honey comb' she's referring to is where they lay the eggs...whatever is digging it up is probably eating the larva. Which is a good thing IMO.
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