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etienettebluet) wrote2009-08-30 02:33 pm
etienettebluet) wrote2009-08-30 02:33 pm
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SATURDAY
Didn't do nearly as much as planned today. Did get paperwork and checkwriting done as planned... but it took longer than anticipated so when I surfaced it was already too late for mowing. Too bad as temperatures this evening was in the sixties. After supper I continued with breaking down cotton garments for quilting fabric.
SUNDAY
Up and at 'em this morning. Went for gas for the mower and got the front yard done while Leofwyna was still sleeping as weather predictions indicate rain this week. Hope it confines itself to evenings so the rummage sale can be successful.
When Leofwyna got up we went out and squared away the garage for rummage sales by putting away all the camping gear and put the seats back in the van along with the futon, tent and so forth (for temp storage of bulky garage things). Then I mowed the backyard while she cut some low hanging branches and weeded back by the compost piles. All productivity ended when she got stung four times on the left hand by yellow jackets; seems they've taken up residence in my big compost pile. Now I've got to figure out how I'm going to evict them... that's what must have got me on the arm last July, I just never saw 'em at the time.
Didn't do nearly as much as planned today. Did get paperwork and checkwriting done as planned... but it took longer than anticipated so when I surfaced it was already too late for mowing. Too bad as temperatures this evening was in the sixties. After supper I continued with breaking down cotton garments for quilting fabric.
SUNDAY
Up and at 'em this morning. Went for gas for the mower and got the front yard done while Leofwyna was still sleeping as weather predictions indicate rain this week. Hope it confines itself to evenings so the rummage sale can be successful.
When Leofwyna got up we went out and squared away the garage for rummage sales by putting away all the camping gear and put the seats back in the van along with the futon, tent and so forth (for temp storage of bulky garage things). Then I mowed the backyard while she cut some low hanging branches and weeded back by the compost piles. All productivity ended when she got stung four times on the left hand by yellow jackets; seems they've taken up residence in my big compost pile. Now I've got to figure out how I'm going to evict them... that's what must have got me on the arm last July, I just never saw 'em at the time.
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He always just takes a bit of newspaper and twists it up tight, lights it like a torch, then uses that to set the nest on fire (garden hose at hand, of course!) We've never had them try to occupy the same spot after that.
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I need to figure a way to drive the yellow jackets out without burning up a huge compost pile that's squarely between my garage and the neighbor's house in the process. I'm thinking major turn out of the pile in the dead of winter; exposing the nest to freezing weather might do the trick.