• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Who’s Who
  • Archive
  • Lauren Stuff
    • Lauren’s To-Do List
    • Bacon Mat Gallery
    • Preschool Quotes
    • Bat Bugs and You
    • Hilarious!
    • Pot Pie recipe
    • Utility Bills
    • Gas Bills
    • Building Committee CDC
  • Lloyd Stuff
    • Lloyd’s To-Do List
    • 50 Best Movies for Middle School
    • Good High School Websites
    • Fantasy Baseball Files
    • Website Rubric & Programming Rubric
    • I Want to Bake Bread
    • I Want to Forge Swords
    • Sorry Chuck. Sorry Brad.
    • The Lloyd Gallery
    • Narnia in Pop Culture
    • myMiniCity WordPress Plugin
    • Settlers Record
  • Prius Camping
  • Brazil
    • Martin Hofman Diaries – 1946
Lloyd and Lauren website logo

LaurenandLloyd.com

where our wasted time becomes your wasted time

  • Most Popular
  • Drawings
  • Videos
  • Worst day ever
  • Journal
  • More
  • Brazil

wasp

First Sting of Spring

March 17, 2011 by Lloyd 12 Comments

So, there was this wasp in my classroom two days ago. I think it snuck in through the air conditioner (that’s how I’d sneak in). I didn’t think much about it. I figured it would fly around awhile then leave.

Well yesterday it (or a very similar looking wasp) was still there. I saw it land on my monitor and I said, “Hello, wasp.” A few minutes later I leaned back in my chair, but the wasp was thinking the same thing. Well, before I could sting it, it stang me.

There were students in the room, so I didn’t say the first 12 things that popped into my mind. Instead, I said, “Did you guys see that wasp that was flying around in here?” After a few students had affirmed the existence of the wasp I followed up with, “Well it just stung me, and it really hurts. I mean ouch, wow. So if I pass out, someone write a pass for someone to go to the office to tell someone.”

No Katies were harmed in the making of this post.

Filed Under: Lloyd Tagged With: School, wasp

*Jibblie*

August 24, 2008 by Lauren 9 Comments

Lloyd was watching t.v. on the couch when all of a sudden he started flinching and saying, “Ow! Ow! Ow!”   Once I established that there really was a problem and he wasn’t just being a goof, I asked him what was wrong.  “Something stung me,” he replied.  “That.”  He pointed at the GIANT BLACK WASP that was now crawling on the curtains.  I ran around looking for something to smash it with, but he cautioned, “Don’t anger it!”  I got a big plastic jar and he caught it as it was riffling through his wallet looking for large bills.

He set it free outside, so if you live in a five-mile radius – be warned.

NOT enlarged to show texture.  It’s really that big.

Filed Under: Journal Tagged With: wasp

Prepare to do battle

April 24, 2008 by Lauren 11 Comments

One of my jobs every morning is to get the playground ready to go. I take the tarp off the sandbox, get the sand diggers ready, and unlock all the locks. This morning when I unlocked the Rubbermaid closet where we keep the jump ropes and balls, this was just inside on the door.

It was twice this big.

Torn between the desire to care for one of God’s creatures or kill it, I desperately looked around for a way to dislodge it from the door. Fortunately my frantic bumbling knocked the door a little bit and it flew away.

Whew. Crisis averted.

Lloyd, if you’re checking this, how’s Minnesota?

Filed Under: Journal, Lauren Tagged With: wasp

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Cindy February 17, 2026 at 10:03 pm on Mountainous memory.My parents still have the “painting” and it’s hanging on the wall over the couch. 1972. It’s called Pine Lake[more]
  • Bill February 7, 2026 at 2:32 pm on “Special” means “Watch Out”And now two years later, Jan 2026 I did the same thing again When will I learn damn special K?[more]
  • Joe January 21, 2026 at 10:06 pm on “Special” means “Watch Out”I keep finding small hard amber pieces that can break a tooth and noticed for the past few years Special[more]
  • Kristi January 5, 2026 at 11:09 am on Such accomplishment!That is a HUGE accomplishment. I can't wait to hear your first piano piece.
  • Mark December 23, 2025 at 7:20 am on Such accomplishment!Proud of you both, sis, especially for the perseverance to see the whole thing through. Grandmother would be so pleased.[more]

Friends

  • Brad
  • Deanne
  • Gretchen
  • Kitt
  • Kris
  • Kristi
  • Top

Sites

  • CSTA Nebraska
  • Lincoln Lutheran
  • Lorenz Family
  • Preschool Pointers
  • Programming Class
  • Sommerer Family
  • St. John CDC
  • Weber Family
  • WP Login

Tags

add art auction Bacon bathroom birthday brad camera cat cats choir christmas clothing computer Cricket family fire food Gadget game garden geek green hair house ipad iphone kitchen laundry mail Meta movie movies music mystery omaha Peggy preschool reunion royuks School seward Small Town tv ukulele

Brad Quote

ALL education with Brad Royuk is special education.

Copyright © 2026 · Genesis Sample on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in