Finally let up on the rain.
And the garden is mostly weeded and fertilized and planted until we get back from vacation in a few weeks.
It’s raining here again in Baltimore-Washington. Hope it lets up for the President’s birthday march and fireworks this evening. But when it comes to rain, Baltimore area is like England. It can happen any day.
Hi, All!
We got back late yesterday afternoon from a short camping trip to “Dolan Lake” and the “Hamilton County State Fish and Wildlife Area”, in Southern IL. Lots of rain, and even saw a cold air funnel, but thankfully with some breaks in the rain. Nice park, awfully weedy lake, but with decent fishing if one can stay “un-aggravated” with cleaning the weeds off one’s terminal tackle after each cast...
Maybe I’ll add more of a review, later.
It was time to change the water filter in our wellhouse this morning, B4 church. Well, actually B4 getting cleaned up for church, as the shower was quite “slow”. Wifey NOT happy. Got attacked by a group of wood bees that have apparently taken up residence. 3 stings - one a half inch above my left eyebrow, one on my right thumb, and one about 1/4” right of the right corner of my right eye. OUCH!!!
I did, CAREFULLY by my eyes, get “Bactine Max” on the stings once I dug up the Bactine Max. That helped, but, I still got a couple odd looks at church.
After we got home, I gave the wellhouse a heavy dose of general purpose fogging spray (pesticide), retreating when 3 of the bees came at me. I escaped with no further stings.
I checked back 4+ hours later, and more wood bees came out the wellhouse door at me. Repeated the escape maneuver...
I can’t get in there long enough to try to figure out where exactly they’ve bored in (might be behind insulation). And I didn’t expect them to breath the fogging spray and survive...
Now what to do? Pump car exhaust in there? We might get a little odor in the house, but not bad, and certainly not enough to be dangerous to us in the house - the wellhouse connects to but is pretty well sealed off from the house itself.
Ideas, anyone?