Found an interesting quilt pattern

Thanks for the link. Hope your stings improve quick. There's baking soda, vinegar, or just plain ole liquid soap----hand soap OR dish detergent. Barbara in SC

Dh was out weed whacking the woods behind out house and got into one of those wasp's nests. He was stung about 30 times and they even chased him into the house. I was away from home and got a strange phone call to come home immediately. (Not like him to give an "order") He didn't know if he would have a reaction to the stings and he'd flipped off his glasses somewhere between the site and the house and I needed to find them. So I hustled home and found his glasses on the floor of the laundry room where he'd stripped off his clothes (with wasps hanging on). We had a couple live wasps in his clothes that I killed and one or two flying around in the house that had come in with him. I then (stupidly) went out back to retrieve the tools. The weed wacker was lying downhill, do I could grab the part furthest from the nest and slide it up the hill. The wasps were still agitated. As I carefully slid the weed eater up....they started coming after me. I must had looked like a mad woman....screeching and flailing my arms as I ran back to the house. I ended up being stun in

ROTFL!

"The weed whacker, Vern - the WEED WHACKER!!!" - Hamilton "Hammy" Squirrel

Do you have any 'meat tenderizer' in your pantry? DS got stung by a bee when we were by a swimming pool at a hotel and that is what the chef recommended. He made a paste of the meat tenderizer powder and water and dabbed it on... within minutes the swelling was gone and the stinger had worked it's way out without our having to touch it. I got stung by a wasp a few years later and put a paste of it on and it took the swelling down very quickly. Didn't even have to take an antihistamine. Now, I always have a bottle of Meat Tenderizer in the pantry.

HTH Butterfly

We have fought wasps every year since we moved into our house. They love the roof overhang out on our back deck. Grilling could be a real challenge. This year a little flycatcher of some kind moved in and started sleeping nights on a strand of lights we have strung along under that overhang. I wasn't fond of washing away his little droppings every morning. Then I realized one day he was hovering under the overhang, flitting from one place to another. OMG! He was pulling wasp larvae out of the nests that had been started within the day or two. I started watching and saw that he was eating flying wasps as well, and keeping all sorts of unsavory critters from making webs and being caught in those webs along the overhang. I started paying attention. Same on the front overhang. We have had no wasp problems all summer, and a little hornet's nest that I was dreading having to knock down in front of the garage ended up torn to bits by the same little fellow (or his mate). I'm in love with that shy little bird.

Sunny

Every house needs a bird helper like that!

I'm house hunting. One of the houses we looked at (which obviously had not been visited by the listing agent forever) had a swallow's nest under the edge of the roof covering the walk at the front door, There was a big pile of swallow droppings under the nest and you had to duck around to the edge of the walk to keep out of the pile. I didn't choose that house - didn't like the house at all - the swallow's contribution didn't help any! My realtor wrote her comments on the printouts for each house - for that one her comment was "Yuk!"

Donna in SW Idaho

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House hunting? Oh boy! It took us almost a year to be guided to our place in the Swamp. Since this is a 'buyer's market', you should be able to do very well. No advice from me except pray a lot. We hope you find a place that is Home Sweet Home. Polly

"Donna in Idaho" Every house needs a bird helper like that!

I'm made an offer which has been accepted. I guess the next step is the appraisal. Yes, it definitely is a buyer's market right now. I'm also trying to sell my place (a package deal with my nephew who owns the adjoining property). Not a single person has looked yet.

Donna in Idaho

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I'm not a bit sure it's okay to sell your nephew but you just go right ahead and do what you've go to do. Polly

Giggle...

I hope your realtor told the listing realtor about the swallow's nest and the resulting mess.

Julia > Every house needs a bird helper like that!

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Nah, I think I'll keep him and hope to sell his place along with mine!

Donna in Idaho

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I have a single daughter...... Probably need more nephew details? Taria

Are you selling your present place of residence?

Have a suggestion if you are. Find an 'obscure corner' and bury a statue of St Joseph and ask him to find you a Home. he will.you'll know it when you walk thru the front door--without seeing the rest of the place. it has worked for us untold times.....this last place we bought never felt like 'home'..I was too incapacitated to 'bury him' before we left B'splat. We are now in a temporary rental that feels so much nicer....even tho I don't have a Studio any longer.

He's married, has a daughter, three sons & 5 grandkids. I think your daughter will need to look elsewhere!!!

Donna in Idaho

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Taria, I have two single sons. I'll offer up the older one -- he's tall and sweet and cute, but a bit ungrounded. A good woman would make all the difference in the world. ;)

Sunny I really need those bedrooms!