Wasps Must Die II or Demolition Man

So if you think I was just kidding around last night about these wasps, let me tell you nothing could be further from the truth. I really did take the fight to them today. I stepped outside and yelled, "I love the smell of Raid in the morning, smells like...victory!" With that I joined the battle, though regrettably not without a casualty. I made a fatal blunder and underestimated the strength of my enemy's defenses. My old hammer took one for the team. Sure he'd lived a good long life, and he knew the risk going in better than anyone. But damn it, I still don't like having to come back out of the field minus anyone.

I wasn't about to make the same mistake twice, so I brought out the big artillery. The BFH is five pounds of hard driving force. (You can't figure out what a BFH is? Really?) Coupled with a pry bar to make up for the lack of a claw on the hammer, I went to work. I found no less than 10 or more nests in various parts of the bench and even discovered (and killed) two wasps making a new one! Now before you get all, "OMG that's just like Avatar! Those poor things!" Let me remind you that these are wasps! These are Evil creatures (with a capital E) that have no real role in the food chain other than intimidation and mayhem. Their departure would only allow more honey bees to fill the void. Think of a world with no wasps and more honey bees. Can you? I can. I imagine myself running through fields of brilliant flowers (because of the pollination) while the bees fly flagons of mead to me. (Snapple fact - mead is a strong alcoholic drink made of honey - just sayin) They put a laurel of daisies on my brow in thanks for my vanquishing the evil scourge that was waspism. I am their king and they do my bidding, er OK I'm getting off topic.

It is finished. The wasp lair is decimated, the wood neatly stacked in my van, and now only a few odd wasps are on my deck. These are the ones that have come home only to say, "Home sweet hoooly crap! Where? What the? Aww damn!" Then they just fly away. Sure I have a lot of cosmetic work to do, but phase one is complete.

Maybe I'll put a drink rail in :)