Wasp nests

Ealier today I noticed a couple of very large wasps nests in a stand of trees about forty feet away from our back yard deck!  These seem to be at least as large as a football!  My wife asked me if a wasp spray would reach them to kill the wasps.  I told her that I just wanted to shoot them down with a shotgun!  My wife thought that might not be a very smart idea, thinking that would rile them up and I’d get stung.  I assured her that the wasps had all vacated the nest for the winter.  She asked me where do they go?  I have to admit that I don’t know!  That would be an interesting thing to google and learn about!

Going through our bills

With my wife’s hours at work being cut back, I’m going to have to help her figure out how to cut back on our expenses  I told her that I’d start looking for a better auto insurance quote than the insurance we have now.  I’ve been telling her for years that we could probably get lower rates, but she hasn’t wanted to do the leg work.  So I’ll be taking that on myself.

Wet Halloween

We weren’t expecting many trick-or-treaters last night, but we didn’t get any at all. It rained almost all day and into the night, so I would imagine most parents took their kids out to the shopping malls to let them do their trick-or-treating under the safety of lights and under the dry roof.

I think that letting the kids trick-or-treat at the malls is a good idea. You don’t have to worry quite so much about the safety of the children running around in the dark streets, and the likelihood of getting some candy that was tampered with is slimmer.

I can remember in years past that local hospitals used to offer free x-ray screening of Halloween candy to make sure that there were no metal foreing objects in the candy! How sad is that? I haven’t heard of that being done in more recent years, though. Maybe they decided that bombarding candy with X-rays isn’t such a good idea!

Tea flavors

 I was reading an article about the health benefits of white tea recently.  I’ve never tried it before.  I’ve tried green tea and didn’t like it, but I think that the next time I’m in a restaurant that offers white tea I’ll give it a try!