December 21, 2010... A Problem

Because we would not be able to fit the Swiss family and their luggage in my car, Mark and Margot left a car at our house for Bryn and family to use. Joshua and Ella as well as Megan and Thomas came to visit at the same time.

Joshua loves playing with the garage of the house.

As I was taking this picture, we suddenly noticed that Ella was crying.

She had been stung by a wasp which we then found in the box of toys.  Later we found two on the window.

Ella, being comforted by Mom.

Feeling a bit better now.

Thomas was fine!.

We found more wasps in the family room a few days later. Our  theory is that they had a nest in the chimney of the fireplace, and, with the house warming up after our arrival, they thought it was spring,  After Bryn's family left, Paul built a fire to smoke out the wasps. It nearly smoked us out. The house now has a smell of hickory smoked bacon.

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Margot said…
While the house did have a kind of smokehouse smell, I didn't find it unpleasant.
January 13, 2011 at 1:16 p.m.
William said…
People pay to live in such a fragrance!

Sure beats the room scents that hotels use.
January 13, 2011 at 5:14 p.m.
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