Bees and wasps and scorpions.....

.... oh my.....

The bee sting on my leg is finally getting less red and angry-looking. A lot of Neosporin helped to get the swelling down.  My husband looked up 'bee stings' on the Internet and found all sorts of good infections that you can get from a simple puncture by a bee.  I should have told him that if I died from this bee sting, he shouldn't bury me anywhere near a hive.

Wasps have taken over the roof of the chicken-coop-turned-screen-porch for the cats.  Into the little openings the wasps fly... and there are dozens of very small open spaces between the boards of the coop and the tin roof.  While I was out there feeding Mickey today, I watched at least a dozen wasps fly into those little ridges.  Heaven only knows what Wasp Kingdoms are underneath that tin roof.  I waited about an hour, made sure there was no breeze on that side of the coop, and I used a whole can of wasp spray.... I aimed the spray into all those little openings and I hope it killed at least a couple of wasp colonies.  (Bad karma, I know.)

This afternoon when I was getting the mail for one of our neighbors, there was a scorpion in their mailbox right behind the mail. Of course, the darn thing scared me to bits.... and I dropped the mail all over the road and had to get out of my car and hope that I didn't step on any of the scorpion's relatives.  Again with the bug spray...... when I brought the mail to their house, I took some of their insect spray and went back down to the mailbox.... and emptied just about the whole can into that box.  When the mail carrier comes tomorrow morning, he'll get the aroma of 'Raid!' as soon as he opens the mailbox and I hope he doesn't pass out from the smell.  When I get their mail from now on, I'll be using the tips of my fingers, taking one piece of mail out at a time, and banging it on the side of the box to make sure a scorpion isn't on each of the envelopes or magazines.    And to think that I had been taking all of their mail out of that box and just putting it on my lap as I drove up their driveway.......... not a good thing.

The ant bites on my ankle from yesterday's adventure..... they're not as swollen as they usually get (I am allergic to those bites).... and they don't look as awful as they have in the past.  This afternoon while I was getting an outfit together for our Halloween party this month, I tried on my costume with black stockings.  In city-days gone by, I wore black stockings because they were NY-chic and you tend to wear a lot of black in NY, which means you wear a lot of black stockings.  These days, I'm wearing black stockings to hide all the ant bites, bee stings, and black-and-blue marks from hitting myself with the rake when I'm out in the garden.