While I was moving a shrub the other day my little-girl squeal, an unanticipated side note of gardening, came out.
It's a high-pitched screech I can't conjure at will; it comes on its own, always unexpectedly, usually involving wasps or spiders. Walking into a web is second only to coming face to face with a wasp nest, either yielding an instant yelp while I try to not jump out of my skin.
Anyway, as I dug a Nandina shrub I uncovered a wasp nest. Before realizing the wasps had abandoned it
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