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I guess they are Mexican?  I guess like Albert Einstein they are working on their theory of relativity in their spare time?  4M² = Brick?  Not really sure?

I saw an immersivemedia vw bug, this company was contracted from Goggle to map the Earth so Google can take over the World (at least I think that is the correct company).  I can not believe there was one in Birmingham, Alabama on 65.  I guess no state is safe?

Google Maps Street View

I only saw about 3 yellow jackets today.  They were not aggressive at all.  I like the first picture of a yellow jacket landing on the bug spray.  I also cut the front yard today.

Disclaimer:  I understand that the camera looks damaged but I had no idea that the Canon Camera Nazis made you take care of your camera.  Why can I not leave it in my pocket?  All it has is cosmetic problems (it has had all the scratches and dents for about 3-4 months).  Well the big problem is the camera will only work for about 30 seconds with freshly charged batteries.  This was Canon’s response:

LARGE DENT ON FRONT COVER LOGO. SEVERAL DENTS ON LENS.UNIT WILL NOT POWER ON. NO DISPLAY ON LCD. SCUFFS/SCRATCHES.CHECK ALL FUNCTIONS, REPAIR TO GOOD WORKING ORDER. FLAT RATE REPAIR MODEL, PARTS AND LABOR INCLUDED IN PRICE

My problem: They want to fix problems that do not affect the functionality of the camera and that I do not want fixed and charge me.  If I do not care that I can not see through the display, why should they care?

The first thing my friend Waymon Scott (a supervisor?) did was give me 20% off.  But I just wondered why they have to fix something not broken?  He threatened to hang up on me and eventually he did.  What an ass.  (Canon PowerShot SD630)

First picture, someone stole one of my OPEN signs.  Number 2, paint on concrete, nice!  Number 3, just some household garbage that a dog got into.  Number 4, someone was shooting up again (it is an “insulin only” needle so that settles it).

Today, I brought my DIGI DMC-688 powder / quarter scale to weigh the powder to get the exact amount of powder for a 5 gallon bucket.

First, I zeroed out the plastic bag.  Then I weighed about 5 pounds which was 12 1/4 cups.  So to make 5 gallons of JBS Industries Hydro White Powered Tire & Engine Cleaner just use 12 1/4 cups or my previous guess of 12 cups.

Okay, I think I am going to try Greg’s method of killing yellow jackets.

Directions to combine all the ingredients using a microwave.  1) Find a crappy microwave on one of your vacuum islands.  2) Cut a microwave ready Poweraid container.  3) Add sugar.  4) Add boric acid.  5) Add some Mountain Dew.  6) Then stir.

It took around 4 minutes to combine and make the liquid.  This Mountain Dew mix seems to work well.  A yellow jacket flew over and got some then started to act weird (rolling around) then flew away.

I do not remember wanting to record the sky all the time.  Maybe someone else adjusted the camera for me?

Someone dumped their garbage and a dog got into the bag.  The garbage included two bags of sugar.  Great.  I did try out some Ortho Max Flying Insect Killer which worked really well on killing yellow jackets.

Someone vacuumed up a lot of screws also.

Look!  I went back to the 1970′s!  You can also purchase this from some guy on ebay.com $7.99 plus shipping.  I could give you the location of this sign if you are a clepto.

Well, I have always wanted to try powder but never have.  I purchased JBS Industries Hydro White Powered Tire & Engine Cleaner (BN 07257).  I purchased it from KR (JBBX5401 $47.57 for 50 pounds).  The label says to add 1/2 to 1 pound per gallon of water then dilute up to 25 to 1.  So I gathered up all my supplies to make some tire cleaner.

I purchased a 5-gallon paint mixer from Finish Factor and some measuring cups from the Dollar Tree.  I forgot to bring my scale to weigh the powder so I decided that 2 cups equaled a pound.

Steps:  1) Add water to bucket,  2) Open powder,  3) Add 10 cups of powder to water, 4) Stir with paint stirrer (Optional: you can also put the top back on to avoid some spilling.), 5) Done, 6) Test

The tire cleaner looks really nice and was very foamy.  But it was not very green.  Maybe I will change the tip in the hydrominder or add more powder next time?  Next time I will also try using a 15 gallon drum instead of a 5 gallon bucket, and then I could stir the cleaner faster.

The random beer bottle drowned around 3 and the Mountain Drew, acid, sugar trapped all the rest.  It did a very good job, but I think they just are drowning and not being poisoned?  Whatever the case, the Sprite bottle did better then the Mountain Dew bottle.

Since the majority of the yellow jacket were drowned I decided to hang my Sterling Rescue Fly Trap with the solution (I have picture so you can follow along).

1) 1/2 cup sugar, 2) 1/4 cup boric acid, 3) 1/4 cup Mountain Dew (with backwash from garbage can), 4) stir until most of the lumps are gone, 5) install

The first arrow is the Yellow Jacket Trap and the second arrow it the Fly Trap.  Just a side note:  Greg said that the solution should be heated to combine the solution together.  I just put it in the sun to heat and combine together. 

(Boric Acid is an inactive ingredient in Visine.)

Well hopefully boric acid in yellow jacket’s mouths and eyes with kill them (or at least work better then the catch and release program).  Greg recommended using boric acid, sugar and water.  I used some sugar, boric acid and Mountain Dew.  I thought since the yellow jackets love Mountain Dew that it would be a good substitute.  I know what you are thinking:  Where do I purchase boric acid?  The answer is at CVS ($9.19 for 12oz.) or a pharmacy and ask the pharmacist because it is on the other side of the counter, but it is over the counter, if you know what I mean.  The second picture is the amount of Mountain Dew and sugar I used.  I just added about a tablespoon of boric acid.

 The first picture shows Sterling Rescue Yellow Jacket Trap it trapped one yellow jacket, good job!  So I decided to put the bottles in the garbage cans that were yellow jacket infested.  It only took a minute before the first yellow jacket started to taste death (I hope).

The first 2 pictures are minutes after I installed the Mountain Dew mix.  The last 2 pictures are when I left the car wash.  The yellow jacket population really calmed down (not really sure if they died or they just where too full and sleeping).  Some stupid yellow jackets drowned at the bottom of the bottles.

What, no pesticides!  Is there a catch and release law or something?  I installed this device with a piece of copper tubing I found on the ground and I hope this works.  I am running out of Stainless Steel Polish.

The chemical hose needed to be shortened it was hardened and enlarged.  This hose is for the presoak.