The Sting

Yesterday, whilst mowing the lawn, I was stung on the back of my right calf by a wasp.

It hurt like hell!  Within seconds the area around the sting had started to swell up and turn a deathly white. It would eventually be about egg sized before (about an hour later) starting to return to normal. Of course we had no appropriate medicine at home, so I just endured. Even now, almost 24 hours later, I can still feel a slight tinge at the place of the sting.

I did manage to see the culprit. It wasn’t a yellowjacket – it was bigger and blacker.

Or maybe not. The wildlife camera was turned on yesterday and I just now retrieved this shot, taken at the exact moment I was attacked.

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As you can see I am lucky to be alive!

MHFU Update

For those interested in how I’m doing in Monster Hunter…

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240+ hours on the savefile now. HR6, 8-star elder quests. I’ve downed some landmark beasts, such as Shao Gaoren and Lao Shun. I’m alternating between a True Devil Slicer weapon (longsword, thunder element) and a Hellstinger (gunlance, ice element). Wearing 3 pieces of the Ceanataur U armor set and 2 pieces of Death Stench S.

In the near term, I plan to hunt the elder dragons, specifically Chameleos and Kushala Daora. In the long term, well I want to upgrade my flame longsword and my Devil Slicer again, so I need to unlock the G-star quests from the guild 🙂

And, completely, utterly unrelatedly, isn’t it weird I know all the lyrics by heart of this song?!