So I've been noticing big, black, segmented-body wasps flying around our house a lot lately. I finally realized yesterday that they were actually flying INTO our house. Not the living part, but the area between our ceiling and our roof on our ranch-style house. They're getting in through tiny holes in the grates covering the ventilation openings all around our roof.

So I went out and bought nasty RAID wasp killer. Then I waited and watched for those buggers to come. I sprayed the bejeesus out of them and all the openings.

Then I realized that they probably were making a nest somewhere in our attic.

(starty creepy knocking noises and low music)

Somebody had to climb up to our attic space and find the wasp nest.

Boy doesn't that sound fun; climbing into a dark, dusty, hot confined space with angry wasps and looking for their nest with a flashlight and a can of raid.

Not to mention the fact that we don't have a ladder yet, so we have to create this precarious contraption of bar-stool on chair to get up there in the first place.

Naoto was busy, so I made the first foray.

I hoisted myself up into the dusty regions of our attic space, where neither Naoto nor myself had ever ventured before. I realized that not wearing shoes meant my feet made deep dents in the insulation with every step.

I saw something move out of the corner of my eye. I sprayed RAID for a full minute, then realized it was just dust. I searched every beam with my flashlight and even ventured near the ventilation opening, but I could not find anything like what my friend Beth had described would look like a wasp nest.

There was some webby stuff, so I sprayed that. Then I hightailed it out of there.

You know, if somebody had told me I'd have to do that as a home owner, I may just have convinced Naoto to stay in a bloody apartment.

And I still don't know if we got the stupid wasps!