Boardman Country

Can you guess who may have painted this eagle’s head?

Here, let me move back a little further for you.

Still can’t guess? Let’s move back a little further still.

Still can’t make it out?

You do realize, though, that it is a work art?
Alright, let’s move way back.

What do you mean you don’t know what it is?

It’s the inside of my next door neighbor’s bedroom valence where a batch of industrious yellow-jackets built and painted this humongous hive!  What you’re looking at stands about two feet tall and is attached to the inside of the external wall of his house.  I think they just incorporated the “eagle’s head” portrait for fun.

How I happened to be able to snap off these shots all began back on October 17th.  You remember, back right before I wrote Weekends Happen about my tarp-flying escapade atop my dad’s house?  Well, what I didn’t tell you in that post was that the next day I was up there with an even bigger, heavier tarp, wind blowing even harder, trying to strap things down a little better.

My neighbor, Jeff, happened to hear the loud flapping of the tarp, looked up and saw me wrestling with it and came over to lend some assistance.

Once we had battened down the hatches, we were all sitting at Dad’s dining room table warming up with a cup of coffee when Jeff starts wondering if, being a keeper of honeybees, I knew anything about yellow-jackets because he thinks he’s got some in the roof of his house.

Well, I really didn’t know much about them at all, but I offered to gear up and come investigate, or if he’d rather, I would just loan him my veil and gloves.

Jeff said he’d let me know if he needed any of that and I didn’t hear anything from him until day before yesterday when he sent his friend Jose over.  Jose said that Jeff thought I might be interested in taking a look at what they found and I told him I’d be right over with my camera.

The rest is, as they say, what you see in the shots above.

When I left, I once again offered my protective gear since Jose said they were getting ready to remove the hive.  As of yet, I’ve had no request for the gear and I’ve not heard any screaming from within the house next door.  I trust pray that all is well.

I’ll keep you posted.

You’re in Boardman Country!

Make yourself at home, but keep the RAID handy.

Brad

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