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Today was my first day of vacation. Hooray! And you can see what I was doing on my first day of vacation. Installing replacement boards in my parent's deck. And who would believe that we'd have temps in the low 80s this early in March?! Let me tell you, I have a lot of concerns about construction workers. Are they nuts?! They do this stuff in the stifling heat of summer--and not for just a few hours. They do it all day long. Yikes. I was tired of the task within the first 30 minutes. But unfortunately it took a little over 3 hours. In case you're curious, the last 2 plus hours weren't so fun. These boards really needed replacing. About one in four screws didn't even come out. I had to pry the board out due to the screws breaking off while I was trying to unscrew them. The damn things were so rusted that they'd just break apart. Then once the board was off, I'd have to go back with a pair of vice-grips and unscrew the bottom fraction of the screw. See that n...

The past few days have been rather warm so I decided to put up my screens. I don't normally use my front porch in cold weather so I'd not noticed that there's been carpenter bee activity on one of my porch posts . As you can see, it's quite a hole they created. I noticed this hole as I was taking the glass door off of my porch entryway. Fortunately I had a can of hornet spray so I promptly dosed down this hole. And then, while dying bees were scrambling out, I replaced the glass door with my screen door. Here you see one of the bees on the porch right after it tumbled out of the hole in my porch post. It's still looking pretty healthy at this point. As bees go, this is a pretty sturdy looking species. Oddly enough that didn't help it against the chemicals in the hornet spray. And no, I don't feel sorry for the nasty bug. Like the title up there says: My House is NOT Food! Damn bugs! Here you can see that the carpenter bee is starting to lose its coordinatio...