Good, glad that helped you, Linda. At this point in the season, I doubt it hurt the 4 o'clocks a bit. Everything in my garden is looking pretty dreary and crumpled anyway.
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@tantefrancine !! Thank you.
Sorry about the yellowjacket. They really are quick to anger and I'll bet it was looking for a place to nest, or maybe it already had a nest in the cabin and was afraid you'd find it. Vinegar is a good tried and true old remedy for stings, so is dampened baking soda and so is a slice of onion taped over the site.
I can't tell you how many times I ran around those mountains with a slice of onion taped to one place or another. Whatever works. These days people say to sprinkle meat tenderizer on a sting and I suppose that would work as well as a tea bag, I don't know. Mostly I just use baking soda since it's usually the first thing I come to in the kitchen. Chinese remedies say to tape a clean copper penny over the sting; I've never tried that because if I get a sting I want something right now and don' t have time to sterilize a copper penny even if I had one handy. So for me it's baking soda or a slice of onion, whichever I can get to first.
'Tis the season for sure, and as much as we have to do outside right now, I'm thinking the flying stingers are even busier out there than we are.
