Wasps and Foggy Windows

Sunday, we went to Ellisville First Baptist again with the St. Johns.  Dad was on call, but mom went to the adult class and Ben and I went to the youth group with Lindsay and Scott.  During the service, Lindsay was working in the children's ministry.  I went along to join her, but they had enough workers there, and I figured it would be best if I wasn't in there since the kids didn't know me, and I didn't know how their class was structured or anything.  I headed back to the service with the rest of the group.  Dad was able to make it to church, but ended up getting there just as the service was ending.  The 4 of us went out to lunch at Applebee's afterwards, and the St. Johns headed home to start packing and preparing for their vacation that they left for today (July 14).

That afternoon, we all ended up falling asleep for about 3 hours. :)  When we got up, mom started making dinner, and Ben and dad headed out to the deck to shuck the corn.  We have a ton of wasps' nests all over outside, and out of nowhere, a wasp came up and stung Ben on the arm.  He had a really swollen, red arm for a few days.  Dad decided to take care of all the wasps out there with some spray, so mom sent me down to keep an eye on him from the basement sliding glass door in case something happened.  It was so humid outside that all the windows were fogged up (we think they don't have very good seals).  I took a few pictures of dad in action from the basement, but when I stepped outside to try and take them without the glass in front of me, the camera lens fogged up in about 2 seconds, so that didn't happen.

Attacking the wasps

Some more spraying

"Hmm..."

Grr!!!

This looks very epic...

Contemplating the meaning of life :)

Fogged up lens!

Foggy again... Dad deciding whether or not to try
and reach the nests at the 2nd story roof

Ben's wasp sting

After he had adequately attacked all the nests, we headed inside for a dinner of tuna noodle casserole and fresh corn from local farmers in Illinois (the produce signs in the grocery store give the names of the local farmers who grew it).  The evening was quiet and uneventful, with Ben, dad and I watching a few episodes of Auction Hunters on tv.  Dad wants to start buying abandoned storage units and selling the junk inside like the guys on the show do. :)

And that was the extent of our Sunday. :)