It must have been the heat that finally did it, because suddenly the entire colony decided to abandon ship then and there . Black patches of scorched grass surrounded it. Eventually the hornets must have regrouped and left to build a new home somewhere else. Miraculously, neither Todd nor I were stung, not even once. But the heat from my final assault on the nest had singed my eyebrows and the front of my hair.
Dogs are the guardian angels for kids.
Mine saved me from getting run over. God, I miss her.