Anything that has a stinger, besides scorpions, ends up flying around the doors and windows, and sometimes getting into the shelter.

Which means, wasps. Bees. Mud daubers.. etc.

I can tolerate the mud daubers, and im okay with bees (as long as they dont get too close), but wasps and hornets? Naw fuck that.

I cant do it.

I run inside, I scream really high pitched, the color drains from my face... if this were a horror movie I wouldnt be acting and id become a shut in.

So ive been looking into different ways to capture or prevent wasps/hornets.

The ones we have currently are wood wasps, or the red ones with black butts, or red all over.

They happen to be two of the most aggressive species of wasp/hornet in america.

Crap.

So I really need to find a good way to rid the area of them. And I did find one.

You take a water bottle, cut the top off, take the top and stick it upside down and into the bottom of the bottle, tape it up, and fill it with dish soap and either hamburger or soda (sweet or protein).

You can also take things like chunks of hamburger or bacon, hang them from a tree, the wasps land on them, eat so much they fall off, and into a bucket or a plate of soapy water... where they die.

And they breathe through their skin or body, so when the soap gets on them, and dries, it sticks to them and they cant breathe. It sucks for them, but I need to be able to do my job out at the shelter so they have to go.

But anyway, theres five hanging in random places away from the doors and dogs out at the shelter, and

But today I was covering for my immediate boss and totally forgot until I got to work today that they were going to be tearing down the old kennels on the south side and replacing them with new improved and awesome ones.

Yay, new stuff in the shelter.

Also we were getting a new sink, since the old one is like, 30 yrs old and is just stupid.

Sitting on a piece of wood thats not only rotting away, covered in mold and is a magnet for dirt, dog hair and anything else that deems itself disgusting.

So today I was hauling chain link fence, huge metal poles, and just about anything else that happens to be related to kennels and materials for them.

Gah.

But it was fine.

Hauled everything to the best of my ability and it felt good to do some real physical exercise.

The only thing that really sucked is when we finally got the new sink in, here is this beautiful, new stainless steel sink, completely clean and free of dirt and problems, and wham.

The whole floor looks like someone... pood all over it.

Nasty.

So i was on my hands and knees with brushes and lots of soap and water scrubbing the dirt off the floor.

So now our floor is really clean and we have a new sink and tomorrow they'll probably get the new kennels up!

Yay! Now we dont have to get cracked on the head