ants in my pants

or wasps in my garden to be more precise. i havent been able to go out back to hang out the laundry for about a week, and ITS PERFECT DRYING WEATHER.

my son has been cooped up inside, because he likes to play right under where the nest is, and he isnt interested in playing in the front yard.

we changed dinner plans because my husband didnt want to risk BBQing with the wasps out there.


after locking the cat inside, and grabing all the cleaning rags i could find and blocking up the inch wide gap between the laundry door and the wall, and finding an old towel to stuff in the 3 inch gap under the door, and manouvering the Box-Of-Heavy in front of the hole in the door where the cat ripped the dog door out of it (my cat is about 9kg - 20lb - of pure muscle. he wouldnt fit through a cat flap, and the dog flap wasnt sturdy enough to contain him... he moved the Box Of Heavy on a regular basis until we put an extra 10kg on it), hubby sprayed the nest with roundup (we had no bug spray and figured weed killer would probably be toxic enough) and sprinted back into the house, and then when it got dark he smashed it and sprinted back into the house, but evidently some survived, because its being rebuilt.


im feeling antsy. the fact that i CANT go outside makes me want to. i want to just go out there and sit and read. or lie on the trampoline... not that id be able to get onto it at the moment anyway.

these wasps are nasty little rotters too. about 15 years ago my sister was outside jumping on the trampoline (different trampoline. it disintegrated a few years back and we bought a new one for critter) and suddenly she started screaming. there was a wasps nest around the side of the house, FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR away from the trampoline, but one had wandered to the back fence where the trampoline was, flew up the sleeve of her t-shirt and stung her under the arm at least 5 times. i am not letting my son go out there and play less than 2 feet from the nest, if thats what they do at 65 feet...


at least we have working air conditioning now so i can keep it cool in the house.