So, this is a follow-up to my post on the "What Did You Succeed In Learning Today"
http://www.simplelivingforum.net/sho...ighlight=stump
The yellow jackets were slightly more aggressive as the summer went on and my son and daughter started complaining because they tended to be annoying when we were trying to eat outside. I understand that some people are freaked out by insects that sting, but they haven't bothered me at all, and I used to love watching them go in and out of their little stump-home.
But, when my neighbor, a hardy, fearless Vermont roofer, came to check out the stump and jumped back 3 feet when he realized they were not bees, but yellow jackets, DH was hell-bent on ridding the yard of the wasps.
So he and my son exterminated them with Raid, and then they took the stump and burned it in the fire pit.
I feel that same irrational sense of loss that I used to when we would throw out our live Christmas trees when I was young. I know the yellow jackets are pests, and I know they were a little annoying.
But I have observed that we had not ONE fly in our house this year. In previous years, a door would be left open and a fly would gain entrance. We always had a fly swatter and this year we didn't need one. Is it because the yellow jackets were guarding the door?
This is a very random post, and probably doesn't deserve a thread of its own, but I feel a bit sad when I walk down my path to the house and the Bee Stump is no longer there.
My son tells me that I'm just being a crazy, woo-woo crunchy-granola hippie mom, but I'm really just kind of feeling bad about the yellow jackets. Am I unreasonable? Have you ever had an irrational sense of loss?