SAVING ENERGY

Aloha!

Another Friday and an especially good one since it is a long holiday weekend. I am hoping all of you will get to enjoy your Labor Day.

So my Question:
Who is the "ENERGY POLICE" in your house?
What I mean is who is always patrolling the lights, doors, running water in your home to keep the utility costs down?

Unfortunately I have assumed that role in my house. So I get to be the mean person who yells because the door is standing wide open and we are cooling the outside. Or someone left the light on in the bathroom. Who am I kidding, they leave every light on in this house.

I believe I inherited this "Energy Police" role from my father. When I was a kid all I could ever remember was hearing things like

"Close that door, were you born in a bar?"
"Turn that light off."
"You don't need these lights on."

All things I hated hearing as a kid and yet I am saying them all the time.

I was really hoping my husband would assume this role because he is as bad as the kids. I have been making him pay the electric bill in hopes that he would see it has lots of room for improvement. I guess he doesn't see what I see. Nothing has changed!!!

Oh well off to deal with light switches and open doors. LOL.....

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THE HORNETS NEST

Recently we had a swarm of hornets decide to make a nest in our wall above our kitchen door. Not sure how they got into the wall but it is an old house and their are cracks and crevices everywhere. At first they weren't an issue and then my husband decided he did not like that they have decided to make a nest in our wall.

First go around, the crazy man bangs on the wall from the kitchen. The plan was to get the to come out so that he could spray them. Fool!!! He got stung because they didn't like us bothering them.

Attempt number two: same thing and he ends up stung again. All I can say is better him than me.

Well now because he has decided to bother them they have become aggressive. Anytime you open the back door to let the dogs out to potty, who by the way have to potty all the time, they come flying out of their nest.

For about a week we would end up with a bee/hornet (all look the same to me) in the house. Poor Eric, still getting stung.

We decided to put our ear to the wall. Oh my.... this is not good because their is a lot of buzzing taking place inside my wall. I am thinking a hundred or so bees are in my wall.

So my wonderful hubby has had enough and plots a plan to get rid of them once and for all. Let me tell you his planned sent me into a tail spin.

• Step stool, check
• Drill, check
• Hornet spray, check
  

Now wait a minute, what is he doing with a step stool in the kitchen at the door and a drill. He is going to drill holes into my wall from the kitchen so he can spray the bees from the inside with the killer.

HAS HE LOST HIS MIND???

My vision, holes drilled and angry bees filling my kitchen. Not my idea of a good idea.

ME: Honey, why don't we have my dad who is a bee keeper suit up can come down and take care of this.

HUSBAND: I can do this don't worry. They wont get in.

Well I think I ranted enough to make him a little nervous about his method. Didn't stop him but he added a couple steps to his plan. He taped a bag to the wall and drilled from the bag. Yeah, like a plastic bag is going to stop a mob of angry bees (can you see my eyes rolling). He also got out a can of expandable foam. If you have every used this stuff it is super sticky and expands really fast.

The moment comes, he drills his holes, sprays a small amount of hornet spray before I think he got nervous and decided to fill the holes with foam. He sprayed so much foam that it shot out the cracks on the other side and ran down my 2 year new screen door. This stuff does not come off easy at all so he has ruined my screen door.

He is so proud of himself for handling the hornets nest. Now the end result is I have holes in my kitchen wall above the door. Good news is we have not remodeled the kitchen to our house yet but the bad news is my kitchen door will probably look like this for a long time.

Beautiful!!!