This week has been all about bites, bites, and more bites. It seems that fate decided to dish out a trio of nibbling nuisances, and I’m left wondering if there’s a cosmic conspiracy against us.
It all started innocently enough—or so I thought. I was minding my own business when, out of nowhere, carpenter bees decided I was their personal pincushion. Three stings later, I was contemplating whether I needed an EpiPen or just a stiff drink. Fortunately, I managed to avoid a trip to the ER, but the bites didn’t stop there.
Enter the household member walking one of our three dogs. Just a normal stroll, right? Wrong. Our neighbor’s dog, apparently channeling its inner Cujo, decided to take a chomp out of said household member. Our dog? Completely fine. The bitten human? Not so much. Cue the bandages and a bit of grumbling about canine territorial disputes.
But wait, there’s more. The next morning, our previously unscathed dog decided to join the bite brigade by gnawing on his own paw like it was a gourmet treat. A quick inspection revealed a nasty hot spot, likely from a bug bite because, of course, there are a million of those around here. Off to the vet we went, and now our poor pooch is sporting the latest in canine fashion—a cone of shame.
As I sit here, scratching my own bites and consoling our cone-headed companion, I can’t help but hope for a bite-free week ahead. Maybe the universe will cut us some slack and we can all get back to living without the constant threat of teeth and stingers.
Here’s to wishing for a peaceful, bite-free week. In the meantime, if anyone needs me, I’ll be the one in the corner, armed with bug spray, a first aid kit, and a singing a song of hope.
Categories: family, Psychology, society
psychologistmimi 
Oh no, that’s terrible!! I hope all wounds heal quickly!
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Thank you 😊
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I don’t know about your local species but out here carpenter bees are huge. They are almost all black but otherwise look like oversize bumblebees.
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Yes, super duper huge. I was struck by their size
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Oh my that’s too many bites. I hope they will all heal up well.
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Thank you so much. In the process of healing
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“Oh No That’s Terrible”
my Same Sentiments in
Hearing of All the Dog and
Bee Bites Your Family and Pets
Are Experiencing Recently Dear
Miriam and True
i Can Relate
As an Otherwise
Friendly Black Lab
Rushed Out of His Yard
Knocked an Elder Man
Walking Around the Block
to the Ground and Bit His
Side Sending Him to the Hospital
Sadly Animal Control Had No Choice
Yet to put Him Down And Then So Surprising
to me Another Dog Jumped His Fence and Chased
me i Stayed Calm Walked Away Paying Him no Mind
And He Went
Back to His
Yard as that’s
Usually What Happens
Additionally Dogs Have Chased
my Wife and Her Friend And my
Sister and Her Wife too Around
Our Neighborhood Block This
Has Never been an Issue
Before in my Neighborhood
For 30 Years Now and Just Coincidence
It Seems Yet two Other People Unrelated
Shared Their Stories of Dog Bites where one
Woman May Lose Her Leg And Of Course We
Have Shark Bites In The Area too Somehow
Intuitively i Feel It May Be Loosely Correlated
With Humanity’s
Current Imbalance With
Nature Reminds me of the
Old Alfred Hitchcock Movie ‘The
Birds’ Way Back in the 1960’s
Where Once Amiable
Birds With Humans
Suddenly Go
On the Attack
Against Humans
Not Unlike Rod Serling
Hitchcock Had a Way
of Prophecy in Arts
And Human Nature and
The Rest of Nature too
Studying the Patterns And Putting
The Pieces Altogether In Intuition for what may come
Next
So Sorry this
Happened to
Your Family and
Pets Hopefully
Balance More
in Loving Peace
Will Come Next For You All
With
SMiLes…
Seems the Overall
Human Atmosphere
is One more of Hope today..:)
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