Tuesday, August 11, 2020

I started my day with a visit from the Orkin man to remove a wasp nest that has been growing and growing over the last month. We first noticed it before our extended stay on Texada; although we were home a couple of times it was never at night so we couldn’t spray it. The next time Pat was home for the night he decided the nest was too big for him to tackle with the can of spray so we called in the pest control guy. But he was on holiday for a week and it wasn’t until today that he was able to come over and get it down. I didn’t watch to see how he did it but he said he was fully suited up and they were trying their best to attack him.

These were Bald-Faced Hornets and they are very aggressive. He said this was the largest wasp nest that he had taken down this year and the first for this type of wasp. I’m just glad it is gone although I have to say I have sat out on the back step, on the opposite side to where the nest was, and I was never bothered. I wasn’t able to hang clothes on the clothes line but that wasn’t a big hardship.

The second nest I had to deal with today was a rat’s nest of yarn. The skein of yarn I am using for Taylor’s blanket didn’t unravel properly; I wasn’t able to start it from the centre so ended up knitting from the outside of the ball to the inside. I was having trouble this morning getting the yarn to unwind so I decided to get at the centre and wind it into a ball before carrying on.

If you’ve ever done this you will know that it is just a matter of finding the right loop to pull through the rat’s nest and everything more or less unravels. This mess was no exception except that it took almost eight hours to find “the right loop”. Pat said I was very patient but after about hour four my patience turned more to stubbornness.

It’s done now and I have to say the entire day was quite relaxing as I worked my way through the mess.