Memes and Homemade Wasp Spray

Today is the first day back at school. 

This is true. It's not even sarcasm or exaggeration.

I started rewatching New Girl. It never disappoints. Season 2 is sitcom gold. 

I follow someone online who recently started "getting up at 4:30am again!" and I cannot. 

I keep telling myself to do a rewatch...the casting in this show is so beyond anything I'd ever expect from network tv. 

I'm jsut ready to see football players walk down tunnels again. 

We watched Into The Fire the other night and it was so good. The book I recommended last week, Forget You Saw Her, was based on this true story. 

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Speaking of murder, we've been murdering a lot of wasps and hornets this last week. We had a nest of some sort of wasp near the pool....3 stings later, Scott ripped out an old umbrella stand and sprayed the nest and solved that problem. But we still had a wasp issue. Generally they just fly around and leave us alone but Wells did get stung once and it's unsettling and became really hard to get the kids to be outside when they were afraid. We couldn't find one singular nest, and we also didn't want to use conventional sprays because they can damage windows and whatnot...you're not supposed to spray them at individual wasps, apparently. 

I saw a reel about washing the outside of your house in Pinesol to keep bugs away. This is usually what i keep around to clean floors with anyway, so I made up a mixture to spray around the outside doors. Scott picked up the bottle one day to spray on a wasp. We discovered it killed them in seconds. 

So now we spend our days/evenings hunting wasps for sport. It keeps the kids from being afraid and it's super satisfying when you hit them. I've gotten a lot better at it. There's strategy involved. Wells treats it like a video game. 

Anyway, that's how country-living is going. 

1 spray bottle (this is 20 oz to the top line, and I fill it to the very top)

2-3 T. Dawn dish soap (probably doesn't have to be Dawn, just don't use some crunchy tox-free stuff)

1/2 cup Pinesol

After you add the soaps, fill to the top of the bottle with water, slowly so you don't create too much suds. 

When spraying, make sure the nozzle is set to "stream" for maximum effect. 

Bonus: it makes everything smell good and won't harm children, property, or animals and it's so much cheaper than buying toxic sprays. 

Disclaimer: Educational purposes only. I'm not responsible for anyone getting stung by a wasp. Also works on any flying insect. Wells likes to practice on flies.