Alas woke up to a 11.8
I thought I ate decently yesterday.
I exercised by tidying up the garage, which is not used for car, but as a storage room for all kinds, shelves, wardrobes, cupboards etc full of my collection of books (a few thousand books), art materials, paper, canvases etc
Finally I tidied up, or began tidying up my work surfaces by the window (I have a project I wanted to start today), when I looked up...a wasps nest, or the beginnings of one rather. It was like a large acorn cup, that holds the acorn, only this looked like a birds egg hanging from it, but there was a hole at the bottom.
Then I realised there was half a dozen or more of these scattered around my garage roof. But from below standing on the ground they blend into the wood of the garage roof and can barely be seen.
So I come in the bungalow, google and you tube. I realise it is the beginnings of the wasps nests. And this is the stage where the queen wasp is working on her own and nurturing her first workers.
But a wasp's nest immediately above my head, where I am painting and printing, which has a potential of 3 to 4,000 wasps is a very big no no.
If the queen wasp had picked the other end of the garage (it is a double length garage, then I would most probably have left the nest. Wasps don't bother you at all, but if you have fear they (or most creatures) will pick it up.
I had a sleep, woke up at dusk, and that was when the sites said to spray the wasp's nest. I wasn't happy about it. I didn't have any wasp nest killer, but I did have WD40. That worked years ago when I found a massive nest inside the house behind a curtain (I cannot hear the buzzing a hearing person would), and the wasps had been going in and out of the window slats so I had never seen them even though I used the airing cupboard in that room.
So, the WD40 would work for these small wasps nests.
From my photo of the wasp's nest above my workspace it looked like 3 or 4 of the workers were about to hatch out. The others were in different stages of development. So I sprayed that one, and dashed out of the garage just in case queen wasp was around and realised what I was doing. Managed to spray another one on the way out.
So my stress levels are up a bit and my blood sugar levels, because I don't like killing things, and it is now 6:30 on a lovely Sunday morning and I need to creep back in garage and spray the others, which are all in the vicinity of my workspace. I am assuming that the same queen wasp was responsible for them all, and that they were her first failed attempts? But if not, then there is a potential of half a dozen full blown wasps nests with 3 or 4,000 little critters in each.
I don't want to go in the garage this morning....
>^..^<
UPDATE
Looks like I got the queen wasp, as well, for that nest above my work surface. Why couldn't she have chosen the derelict garage in next door's garden as no one goes in?
I would have been happy for her to be there.
Now I need to knock the nest off above my work surface, but I will leave the other dead nests on the ceiling of my garage and that should deter any new queen wasps....
Then maybe I can relax and my blood sugar levels will go down....
) i was happy with 5.5. So decided to treat myself a bit... with all the weight loss over the last year, it was time to revamp the wardrobe... so some shopping happened for age appropriate linen clothes
