Buzzing noises...

So it seems that this year has been particularly bad for bees, wasps, hornets, etc up here. Lucky us! The other day Josh was mowing the lawn and was swarmed with them by our juniper, so in closer looking he found there was a nest in the ground beneath it. We sprayed two whole cans of hive killer into it, and the next day he dug it out. Here's what he found!

Hornets, lots and lots of them. Now for somebody who was so severely allergic to stings as a kid, Josh has no fear. He split the hive open and messed with it just because he was curious. You couldn't have gotten me to touch it with a stick, lol. At least it's been found and destroyed, I'm happy with that!

Mt St Helens pics

We went to Mount St Helens for the week last week and here are some fun pics from it! So they aren't much of the mountain, but we've got tons of those kinds of pics from previous years.

June Lake hike. Two pretty little waterfalls into the same lake. Cool!
One of the only pics with all of us in it, lol

part of the blown down forest. Just a cool old creepy tree
We did the sand ladder at Windy Ridge this year. I thought I was gonna die, but everybody else did great! It was a LOT of stair steps, though.
More blown down forest
Happy Josh...
Goofy Josh...
And whacky Josh
It was pretty overcast the whole time we were there, but at least we got to see it a little bit! And up at windy ridge we got a great view into the crater in a cloud break.