PSA: Outdoors and your clothing

[Sandy Ground]

@Anniekay when you wrote the word "Marzy" my nind went directly to Roy Orbison saying "mercy!" I admit it, I'm old!

 

[Anniekay]

Then of course, there was the bee that fractured one of my fingers only a few yards from a hospital...

Now c'mon, do tell!! @Sandy Ground

As for my white faced hornet attack: I was mowing on the edge of a field that we had had logged. The mower backfired and choked off a couple of clouds of black smoke, then quit on me. I was not far from a big, thickly branched cedar tree that, unbeknownst to me, had a huge hornets nest in it and, when I got off the mower, something stung me in the neck. It felt like a hot nail had been shot into me.

I took off running for the house and on the way, was stung again, on the other side of my neck. Then I scared up and actually passed a rabbit on the way .
As I ascended he steps, yep, third sting. When I got inside, that dang hornet had followed me in !! By then he was pretty pooped, as was I but I got him !!

I called the AG Extension guy and sent him a photo of that hornet because I'd never seen one before. He said those white-faced hornets are the most agressive species we have in the area and I was lucky that this happened at a time other than dawn or dusk when the whole hive is home. Once I knew where they were, I stayed away but you could actually hear them humming at dusk from 100 yards away!!

 

[olly-buckle]

I remember helping stack straw bales on a wheat field at harvest. It was a full summer's day and the holiday makers in shorts and tee shirts who also helped looked askance at the farm worker. Solid boots, corduroy trousers tied at the bottom with string, a buttoned up tweed jacket and a cap. Everybody else got bitten badly.