Bulldozers have feelings too!

We let the grass grow between the paving stones in the backyard. Well, not just the grass but pretty well any weed that felt like calling this area home. With the greenery came unwanted guests - sand wasps. Now, that is what I call them though I don't know if that is how they are classified. They are nasty little buzzing buggers that look like they would sting.

The backyard is for our dogs and we don't want them sharing their space with wasps. And so, today, I pulled out the weeds and unleashed the wasps that live in the ground. I felt like I am sure bulldozers feel when they raze poor areas where whole families have been evicted in the name of progress. I could feel the puzzlement and distress of the wasps as I was destroying their environment, parks, grocery stores (some were wild flowers) maybe schools. Very few protesters as I chose a moment of the day when they are not too active in the yard (I usually hear them early mornings when I change the drinking water outside). I dumped all the flowers in the woods on the property with a sad feeling of destruction. Now I know why bulldozers huddle at night with sorry faces...