Our house is theirs, too.

Every now and then, I take a walk around the house. You can come and go several times in any given day and still not really notice as much as you would if you were purposely looking for something, anything, that just doesn't fit into the overall picture.

So I did that, tonight. The boys were out participating in the Stanley Olympics, and to ensure they weren't breaking any rules, I had to police them and I wasn't about to just sit there and let the mosquitos bite me while I did that. So I decided I was long overdue for a visual inspection of the property, its boundaries, etc.

I didn't come upon anything unusual, although I did come upon something I never expected to see and was surprised it wasn't noticed sooner and not just by me, but by the boy scouts because they have been known to stumble upon trouble even without looking for it and then wreak havoc with it when they do. And it's smack in the front of the house. How did we miss it for so long?

I didn't want to draw this find to their attention, so when they were in the middle of their 'Round the House Marathon, I got G and showed him what I found, asking him not to be so obvious at looking at it because if they saw it, we were surely doomed. He agreed, cooperated, and we went back into the house. While they were in the middle of the High Jump or something like that, I got the camera and took pictures, followed by a couple of pictures of them so they would think I had the camera out to capture their Olympic moments and not to show you my find. I even went to one of their bedrooms, stuck my head out, and got an upside down bird's eye view.



I'm really glad they make those aerosol cans spray a good 25 feet away because you can bet when I attack that nest, I'll be on the ground and ready to make a run for it. Or, maybe I'll just let the pest guys do it.