Hey Friends,
Mom found unwelcomed visitors at the barn yesterday. She spotted hornets swarming and their nest.
She had not seen it on Thursday when she mowed the yard. She was in and out of the barn with the door up and down several times. I am thankful she was not stung!
Yesterday, Mom immediately took action and called the professionals to exterminate the hornets. We do not want them hanging out here.
We both remembered Dad’s run in with hornets. He often told us this story. By the time I heard it, he was laughing about the ordeal. Yesterday, we just had to smile, thinking about Dad’s Hornets.
This is the story as we remember Dad telling us. I thought he had blogged about it before, but I could find no record of it.
When Dad was a kid, he was with some of his 98 Isaacs family cousins in Kentucky. They were picking blackberries.
Grandpa Isaacs parted a bush, and a big papery nest dropped on the ground. He cried, “HORNETS!!!!”
There were many kids and adults around, but the one kid that ran became the target of the hornets. It was my Dad!
He told us they chased him as he ran as fast as he could. He was being stung all over. They got under a leather bracelet he was wearing.
His dad, my Papaw Eugene was his salvation. He chased him down, tackling him pulled off his shirt and began to get the hornets off of him. I think they made it to the creek.
My Dad hated hornets from that day forward. Also, the daughters of his Uncle Herman Isaacs named him “Hornet”.
Even after they were all grown they would still call him “Hornet” when they saw him.
Daddy loved his cousins and their memories! I think he loved his Hornet nickname from his beloved cousins.
Dad had to face his hornet fears on different occasions to get rid of a nest. He got stung doing so as an adult, and we heard the original hornet story then.
Let me close today with anniversary wishes. Uncle Jay and Aunt Theresa Osbon got married 34 years ago today!
Happy Anniversary! We love you both so much! I pray God grants you the best year yet!
See you tomorrow.
Odie
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