Bees

the neighbors have had a bees nest in their garden for a while now they dosed it with bee killer twice and didn't get rid of it. I don't know how much J has complained to them but they just couldn't get rid of it and were unwilling to take away a few bricks to get a better shot at it. well today Jason got stung on his pinky finger. You may be thinking no big deal - I did too as J had never had a bad reaction to a bee sting before unfortunately we would both be wrong. Now in all honesty it was not that bad (It would have been a lot worse had it stung him on the face or neck). But we now know that J is allergic to bee stings. His hand swelled up and he got hives. As of the end of the night I'm not sure that it had stopped swelling despite benadryl and whatever meds the doctor gave him.

the stones were ripped out to get at the bees nest under protest of the neighbor. but with the two cans of bee spray that I saw in the distance (me and Evelyn were not going over to check it out) I hope it is finally taken care of but maybe they should use a third can before they put the wall back up.

Oddly enough I was reminded of the time in Eugene that me and a few friends went hiking and ran into a bees nest. there was a tree down in the path and like idiots two of us went through (all of us were going to but one saw the bees - she is allergic) So two of us were stranded on the one side - the others were in no danger from the bees on the original side. it was not a loop trail though we could have made it back around to the car a different way. but no we decided to go back through the tree. I don't know how many times my friend was stung actualy I'm not even sure how many times I was stung. I'm pretty lucky that I didn't have a bad reaction to the stings just by the large number of stings. Odly they all concentrated on stinging me in the same area of my body I guess they coordinated the attack. It was quite the hike.