Yellow jackets, exterminators, peach pie and a cold...

So, this is how MY week went, LOL!  This is a file photo... this room no longer has yellow jacket issues, by my bathroom? The one with a shower????  My kitchen.... my living room.... and my pretty spare room in shades of blue and yellow....

Infested.

Eee gads. We finally called the exterminator and STEVE is now my new BFF.  He came in an unmarked truck...(lest your neighbors think you have rats or roaches...) and applied magic dust to two hives. According to Steve, there were thousands of the little suckers per hive.

Thousands.

I cannot even begin to think about that.

So Steve worked his magic. They diminished. We've gotten about twenty in today... which is like a ten fold decrease. MUCH BETTER.

He said give it five days. If there are any after five days, they come back and re-treat.  No more cost. I was happy to fork over the money.... and not sad to think of these things dying... does that make me a terrible person?

No.

It makes me normal. I think. So when Steve was done and I had most of my kitchen back, I made that delightful peaches and cream pie we featured here a few weeks ago... The recipe my mother-in-law found and shared with me. I did share it here, didn't I???? Because if I didn't, I must. I hunted for it but I have a cold... my head is stuffy and my nose is running and I'm fairly disgusting right now. But the pie...

Color me happy while I eat the pie!!!!  Although I'm still watching out for dull-witted yellow jackets because even twenty is twenty too many.

I'm just sayin'!

And the kids started back to school this week.... Look at these sweet babies:

And then there are our future Super Students:

We will wear pants to school when the time comes. I'm just sayin'...  ;)

So a busy week here. Not much kitchen fun because we pretty much lived outside until the wasp infestation improved....  But I'm envisioning cool days. Soft, chewy, melt-in-your-mouth cookies. Apple cider (pricey this year because of the blossom burn last spring, but still worth it!!!) and pumpkin pie.

But right now I'm having soup. And peach pie. And sinus meds. Because I'm a big, fat baby when I'm sick!

SCHOOL'S IN!!!!!

Okitty Dokitty, I'm psyched.

Not because I don't love having kids around. I do.

BUT I LOVE HAVING A SCHEDULE, TOO.

Oy, there's only so much of the easy-peasy, whenever-ya-wanna summer mentality this type A personality can handle without shooting someone.

And then they'd put me in jail and I'd have to use an open toilet and we all know how much I detest the thought of that. It's about the only thing that's kept folks alive for years.

So now that the kids are back in school... the invasion of the yellow jackets has kept me OUT OF THE KITCHEN.

How stinkin' annoying is that?

I dream of peach pie.

Apple crisp.

Carrot cake.... mmmmmmm................

What I have is dozens of stupid wasps zipping into each other and nailing windows because they're half-drugged. I will not show you pictures of the piles... Let it be said that when the exterminator comes today, I might KISS HIM.

Oh my stars, it's beyond crazy....  Bzzzzzz............

:)

So we can talk pests today. But trust me when I say, I've tried all the nice organic remedies I could find...

And then the POISONOUS ONES.

And now: the pay 'em to come and save my sorry life guys from Target Exterminators.

DUCK!!!

INCOMING!!!!