[bksvol-discuss] Re: O_T Yellow jackets and the visit and interview
- From: "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:19:17 -0400
Well, we figure that they got in while we were remodeling our siding on the
house this summer. They evidently had another "hole" to get in and out of,
but since the temperature dropped, and it has been raining here the last two
days straight with very cold nights, well, we figure that they tried to find
a safer way in and out. The attic access is in my ceiling, and I have a
"dropped ceiling" so there is a bit of a gap between the floor of the attic
and my ceiling. Apparently they came down here, as it was warm and lighter
than the attic, and proceeded to try to get out that way. Luckily they are
very sluggish this time of year or I and my dog could have been stung many
times.
I have been trying to find a smell up here, it is a bit of an unpleasant
moldy smell and so My little brother was up here yesterday trying to help me
look, that was of course till he saw the yellow jackets. We still haven't
found the source of the smell sigh.
I can hear the buzzing normally, and I do on occasion get things like
Japanese beetles and stink bugs in here so I usually assume the insect
critters here are those, but not this time.
And again because they were so sluggish, I didn't hear them.
But my brother saw the critters, we got out of their fast, locked the door,
and then when my father came home sprayed the ones on the floor and windows,
and then daddy went up and found the nests and sprayed them.
So far today, no more bugs! Few! smile.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
Graduate Alumni Association Board
www.guidedogs.com
Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
Puppies are the joy at one end.
Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
Carolyn Alexander
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 1:00 AM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: O_T Yellow jackets and the visit and interview
Shelley,
Sorry Utica didn't work out. Can you afford to take a
trip to Palo Alto to check out tht job and place and
housing?
Sorry to hear about the yellowjackets, too. That would
freak me out. How did you know they were there? Could
you hear them?
Cindy R
--- "Shelley L. Rhodes" <juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> For those following the job hunting saga, that I and
> Judson have been going
> through.
>
> Well.... I went up and visited Utica today. It is a
> nice little city,
> though you can definitely see where it may have been
> once great. Like a lot
> of eastern and northern cities it is economically
> depressed.
>
> The center I visited Central Association for the
> Blind and Visually Impaired
> is a nice little agency. Everyone seemed friendly
> the agency was clean,
> they had a large number of services and information.
>
> However, the benefits and the wages are not what is
> usually offered in Blind
> Rehab, and well, I am not sure if I can actually
> afford to live in Utica.
> I sat down and put together a budget, and well, it
> is EXTREMELY tight if I
> were to take the job. Also they are willing to pay
> half the wages of a
> driver, I have to pay the other half, and they would
> pay mileage. It
> sounded like a wonderful job and a great place to
> work, except for the pay.
> I am still applying and will keep it in the pool of
> possibilities.
>
> So I am still hunting, smile.
>
> Well, we got home tonight, and I had a really nasty
> surprise when I came up
> here to unpack. I apparently am the not so proud
> owner of six yellow jacket
> nests. I had slowly crawling sluggish yellow
> jackets all over my floor and
> climbing up the walls, we counted at least twenty in
> one window.
>
> Dad came up here and sprayed, I need to wipe down
> all the furniture
> tomorrow, and we swept up all the dead critters.
> Dad also found where the
> nests were and drown them in wasp poison, so here is
> hoping I don't get to
> see any more of those critters.
>
> Shiver. Luckily it was cold today so they weren't
> moving very fast, but it
> was quite a shock to say the least.
>
> Smile. So for now, I am still here in Corry, still
> volunteering for
> Bookshare and hopefully will find a nice center
> based job, where I don't
> need to worry about drivers. I am thinking
> optimistically, smile. Though
> Itinerate work would not be bad at all.
>
>
> Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
> and Judson, guiding golden
> juddysbuddy@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Guide Dogs For the Blind Inc.
> Graduate Alumni Association Board
> www.guidedogs.com
>
> Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
> Puppies are the joy at one end.
> Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
> Carolyn Alexander
>
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