The Morning Constitutional

I went for a little stroll today…a jolly little walk or morning constitutional if you will.  After I had walked half way around the block, it started to sprinkle, and then to rain, and then to pour.  I headed back home and just as I reached our house the rain started to let up and stop.

Right as I reached our driveway, I felt an extremely sharp and intense pain  in the back side of my knee.  Instinctively, I reached down to the pained knee and found a hornet.  I tried to swat the hornet away.  It landed back on my shorts, and I swatted it again and ran inside.

I then felt something on the back of my ear; the hornet was on my ear!  I was able to swipe it off my ear and onto the floor, and it met its untimely demise.

Today was the first time I had ever been stung by a wasp or bee, and let me tell you, the back of the knee is one sensitive area to a hornet sting!  The sting hurt all day even though the swelling has gone down.

The ironic thing about the whole ordeal (the rain, the sting) is that I went outside to talk a relaxing walk to help improve my day!

As an aside, we think the wasp was disturbed by the rain, we saw afterwards a den of sand wasps in our neighbor’s yard right by the sidewalk and noted 8 wasps fly into the hole in under a minute.