09/10/2023
Here’s a Sunday morning funny story for you. Joe Murphy in action! I got my tractor running and was clearing underbrush and making a new walking trail and cleaning up the old duck pond located up the hill. Eventually, refilling and rebuilding of the failed duck pond dam( it’s a tiny one with an 18” overflow pipe) will happen. There is about 2/10 of the trail on the house side of the duck pond and I got that all cleaned up this morning after church. I went around the other side of the swamp (aka duck pond), up the hill, and started working towards the dam from the other side. I had cut about 1/4 mile through the brush and had 15’ to go….disaster! I hit a buried hornet nest and oh hell, it was on! I bailed from the tractor and ran like hell! I left my phone, left the tractor running and ran away as fast as I could. Seriously folks, every second counts when you hit hornets. They will kill you before you can get away. As it was I got stung like hell 4 times anyway, once behind my ear! I told you, I was running away. 😎 I went back with 2 cans of 25’ wasp spray and sprayed them enough to shut the tractor off and get my phone. After 2 cans there are still hundreds flying around my tractor. Which is parked right on top of their hive. I figured that was a great place to park it and walked back to the house until they settle down. 😁And, after I go get more wasp spray. Just yesterday, I got the Benadryl cream I ordered on Amazon (4) tubes. How damn timely is that?! My neck and leg were on fire from the stings. Not anymore, the cream was right on time! How crazy for it get here right before I really needed it. Just another day on the farm. 😎
