{"id":26116,"date":"2019-09-04T20:29:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T02:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/?p=26116"},"modified":"2024-11-28T23:05:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T05:05:52","slug":"red-hot-poker-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/2019\/09\/04\/red-hot-poker-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Hot Poker of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Hawken<\/a>
Hawken the mighty Wolfhound stands near the back door last night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One evening earlier this summer, I had just finished walking Hawken the Irish Wolfhound when I came across a nest of red wasps in the gap between the back door and the siding, and I guess I got too close, because they broke the treaty and stung me twice in the left arm.<\/p>\n

Within 90 seconds they had been sprayed into oblivion in what could only be described as a mission of destruction. The stings were painful initially, and lasted for more than a week.<\/p>\n

\"I<\/a>
I know they’re not aggressive and don’t attack unless provoked, and only defend their nests, but they build those nests too close to areas I transit every day, and since they did break the cease-fire, I have no other recourse but annihilation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This morning I opened that same door to bring Hawken breakfast when I heard the papery whisper of dozens of red wasp wings coming from that same spot. I backed off quickly and avoided getting stung this time, but come on: They reoccupied the position! Again I sprayed them into oblivion, and tonight after walking both dogs I looked around to see dozens of dead wasps on the back porch.<\/p>\n

Wasp stings are a nuisance for me, but if Summer the Chihuahua got stung, it could be fatal. She has recently discovered that she loves for me to walk her, so I have doubled my daily dog walking.<\/p>\n

\"Summer<\/a>
Summer the Chihuahua pokes around the driveway on a walk recently.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The disk shape on my hand is the projection of the morning sun through the peephole.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, a unique feature of our exactly-east-facing house is that as the autumnal equinox approaches, the sun shines through the peephole (mistyped at one point “poophole”), in the front door in the morning, which is\u00a0 neat.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The lensing of the peephole causes the light to split into spectra. Moving the camera to different colored parts of the light changes the result.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One evening earlier this summer, I had just finished walking Hawken the Irish Wolfhound when I came across a nest of red wasps in the gap between the back door and the siding, and I guess I got too close, because they broke the treaty and stung me twice in the left arm. Within 90…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-our-patch-of-green-in-oklahoma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26116"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32199,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26116\/revisions\/32199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardbarron.net\/giantmuh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}