Wasps? Again, yet, already, And OUUUCHHHHHHHH! Oi vey! sorry Mikey!

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Timbo in Oz

I disturbed Nest 2 just a few minutes ago (10AM here). And, was bitten just below the knee by a yellow and black bastard. In wide shorts too!!!!!! and boxers!!!!!!!!
Immediately followed by the justly famous and well renowned 40 metre dash into the house*, then by watching the vengeful swarm from our bedroom window while rubbin g vinegar on the site. Phone calls and request for nest removal, and last!? an ice pack in a towel! But it is coming back at me just right now!
Now Timbo, as you all know, is a short but brave 'ex-Jungle-green Killer-grunt', but I can tell you I can do the 'Brave Sir Robin, ran away, Bravely ran, and ran away!' bit real real good, see, right through *'trees and shrubs and flowers'.
But, oh dear and tsu, tsu it don't half hurt HURT, Ma!!!
'Silly-old Timbo, 'ees a biituva slow learner, innee?' you are all thinking!?
Wellll, not really, ... this time I could NOT have known that it was there!!!
It was under one of those treated (copper salts?) pine logs well into the mulch and under a large shrub!!!! Which i was pulling out place along the street's edge beside the storm-gutter!
I am re-newing the mulch AND placing street and contour edging.
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So as to miminimise the wash-away effect.
Our deeply mulched front garden* has taken a few hits from all the bloody tropical-downpoor thunderstorms we have been having, of late!
Soxie? Storms, lots of?
* our block is a pie-slice with an oblique nick off one side of the point at the rear, and slopes NE to SW diagonally across itself all th wayback to towering (?) Mt. Taylor - urban Canberra's biggest hill. And, our frontage is about 50 metres/ 55 yards.
I decided to go lawn-less out front a decade or so back. This does require a LOT of mulch, and bi-annual topping-up. One reason for the topping up is the mostly dry, hot and windy conditions, plus summer storms.
Wherever the mulch settles / becomes shallow it can easily become part of the floods running down the block. @ Water a foot deep runs down the side of the house during most storms. The last 4 big ones - in 8 days! - had water a foot or more deep on the road, too! Many more are predicted into Autumn - March.So we end up with wave-patterned mulch interspersed with bare earth - out of which weeds soon spring.
So, instead out springeth(?) Timbo, girded with heavy steel and plastic rakes, to remedy this possibility. Plus noticing that certain very shallow beds probably no longer need tretes pine logs as edging which can be used to retain mulch.
There is also a fresh pile (20 cubic yards!!#) of hardwood mulch, shredded gum-tree timber this time, bugger all bark, twigs and leaves mixed in as is usual. It has to be forked into a wheel barrow and dumped all over and then spread out, sort-of flat.
To freshen up the front mulched areas, and the rear mulched areas and perhaps the weed-bed strip which now passes for lawn, thanks to 'the drought', stage 5!!!! (yep) watering restrictions, and recent heavy rain-storms. Sooooo UP they thrust!!!!! Dock, dandelions, thistles and etc. NB the rain patterns out the back yard are formed by dead pale yellow-grey grass fragments comingled with mulch.
# My BILaw has a truck refurbishing business, and knows most of the tree loppers / timber shredders. So, I just pay for the mulch.
Just maybe, if the El Nino reversal (La Nina) continues to grow in the reversal direction, we may just see the end of this horrific 10 yr drought!

Warmest
Timbo in Oz
The Skyptical Mensurer and Audio Scrounger
And gladly would he learn and gladly teach - Chaucer. ;-)!
'Still not saluting.'

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Topic - Wasps? Again, yet, already, And OUUUCHHHHHHHH! Oi vey! sorry Mikey! - Timbo in Oz 15:51:08 02/25/07 (1)

\\\In wide shorts too!!!!!! and boxers!!!!!!!!///.................. - three_sox 21:49:59 02/25/07 (0)

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