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joeb ([personal profile] joebanks) wrote2017-07-13 04:10 am

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I was stung twice by a yellow jacket yesterday. I think i found a nest and it let me know. It really hurt so i came in and took a benadryl which is something i usually don't bother with. I went back outside and after awhile started to feel sort of a tightening in my diaphragm; that's not exactly how allergic reactions are described. I took another benadryl and the sensation slowly went away. Could barely keep my eyes open at work until the medication wore off around 9 PM. Sort of fun day.

We are expecting yet more heavy rains today. It hasn't started yet but we are already under a flood watch until sometime Friday. "We" never flood, we sit to high but low lying areas are at risk. Unless they are learning to over predict summer rains like they do winter snows?


I set up another journal under the name of http://joeb.dreamwidth.org/profile but i've lost the password, so i'm here for now.

Let me add that i noticed a few weeks ago that there were almost no lightening bugs this year. I got some reports that there were plenty of them elsewhere. A few days later there was an article in the paper or on the news about this. The explanation was that light pollution is messing with the bugs but, i don't buy that. It's as dark here as it has ever been, the woods behind us is extensive and was once filled with lightening bugs; the past few years i tried to film or photograph them - not so easy! So i don't know the real story; are we to lose all are beneficial bugs and be left with psychotic hornets?