Well Happy Tree Tuesday, y'all!

The title, if you happened to read it, is not clickbait. I hate to admit it, but I have already chosen a victim. It actually is a kind of creepy feeling to know that the soon to be victim is not at all aware of their impending fate. As far as they know, it is just another day of life that will end like all of their previous days. But I know better.

I never like the thought of killing. Some people that commit murder probably are not bothered by it. Hell, some most likely enjoy it in a sadistic sense. However, I get no pleasure from killing. This is a premeditated murder, that from my perspective, has to be done. I am sure there are those that will say there has to be a better way. In fact I think they may have been other options. However at the end of the day, this murder is more convenient for me. It benefits me, and I guess that is all I care about. Basically it is like a business decision. Not emotional, just what I want to happen.

You see there are many bees in my tree. Not bees actually, but yellowjacket to be more specific. Yellowjackets can sting more than once unlike a common honeybee, and are basically just plain ornery.

I didn't want to kill the tree, so I first tried to bait the wasps into traps...

Yellowjackets were going between the brick and the vinyl to a nest. We coated the entrance with a copious amount of poisonous dust.

There were some trying to move into my territory, and we wasted them all. Now they were all over my tree. Apparently aphids eat the green leaves, and poop out sugar excrement commonly referred to as honeydew lol.

The wasps were all over the leaves of the oak just as if it were a flower!!! Nearly every leaf would have a wasp or three!

So the wasps were a nuisance in the young oak tree. However, I was not out to only kill the wasps. Oh no, my heart had become cold and barren of emotion. I wanted the young oak tree dead because it blocked my view of the lake. It had to be murdered!

The crime scene was brutal. There was parts of the victim everywhere.

This is where the victim was cut down where he stood for the past few years...never having an inkling that it was the day of his end. As Michael Jackson would say

Shiny and sparkly
And splendidly bright
Here one day
Gone one night...
Gone too soon.

It was a sad day, but after all, my view is much better.

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