Though the weather is still vacillating between winter-y and actual spring, there have been a few days of excellent sunshine. Brad and I have been able to take a few walks and even meander around the ponds of our apartment complex spinning tales to each other about exactly what the ducks and geese are up to. We even saw the first ducklings of the year today, a brood of 11 hatched by one of our favorite ducks, Tuffy.
We first met Tuffy when she was just a duckling herself, and she earned her name by being the only survivor of her mother’s batch that year. Her mother completely ignored her, yet she dodged and ran between all of the big duck’s feet and pecking beaks in order to get a little of the cracked corn we throw to them, growing into adulthood in spite of her mother rather than because of her. She’s fearless; while most of the other ducks keep a certain distance, she will eat out of our hands with no compunction. So first she was just “tough duck” and then eventually she became Tuffy. And now she’s got a brood of her own. (I know, I should have taken pictures. Soon, I will!)
All of this is to say that my experiment with minty hairspray seems to be have been successful so far. I’ve seen wasps while we’re out and about, but none have come charging at my face or attempted to not-so-discreetly investigate my hair. While observing Tuffy’s babies – still so new that they couldn’t figure out that they were supposed to eat the corn we were throwing them like Tuffy was – a wasp was buzzing around a little clump of flowers but never decided that I was a more interesting flower instead.
Dare I say that it actually works?
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Experiments in Wasp Repellant, Day 3
Experiments in Wasp Repellant
