A couple of days before our road trip around the Canadian side of Lake Huron, Al made an unpleasant discovery at the side door of the house. Some yellow jackets had established a nest down in the ground near the sidewalk, and one had stung him. The sting was quite painful, even after trying to treat it with several applications of Aloe Vera gel.

It was a problem, especially since the nest was so close to the door we used for entering into and exiting from the house. Al thought we should hire an exterminator before leaving for Canada. Before doing that however, I volunteered to spray with pepper spray, a mixture of water, cayenne pepper and dish soap I had been using in the garden as a deterrent to chipmunks!

As the sun was going down, a time when the bees were supposed to be less active,

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