Wasp attack

The average temperature throughout entire July (day and night) in Lund has been measured to 21.7 C. The only July ever warmer than that was in 1901, gobsmacking right!? I am very pleased with the summer. Excellent stabile warm and sunny weather, nice pool in the garden, and flowers growing like crazy. But as you know, every coin has two sides (at least). Nasty things happen as a concomitant of a heat wave; e.g. people whine, and bugs multiply exponentially and eat my plants. The nasty wasps are also shacking up and having babies, that are shaking up and having more babies, and so on and so forth. Disguisting, evil, and promiscuous!

I have been dreading the day, that finally arrived today. My very cutest Cute Cat was stung by one of the evil wasps. He was sitting all innocently, enjoying the view from my in-laws' house, when a wasp decides to bug =) the cutest of cats. I wasn't around when the actual thing went down, so all this with Cute Cat being innocent is all retroactively made up, but still unbiasedly the event most likely to have taken place. He is so sweet, and would never harm a living thing.

Anyway... My sweet boyfriend come running telling me that Cute Cat was stung on the paw. I try to get hold of Cute Cat, for a damage control, but he just runs away. I finally catch up with him in the basement, where I find him with a chin and cheek looking like he had eaten a small ping-pong ball. I quickly come to the conclusion that he'd actually been stung on the chin, take him by the neck and sit down with him in a firm grip on my lap. I am able to quickly remove the sting (with accompanying parts of wasp intestine), and let cute cat go again. I get all worked up with worry, and monitor him closely for a few hours to see if he'll develop any respiratory issues. But nothing out of the ordinary happens, the swelling subsides (I can still see it in the picture (will be blogged tomorrow!), but others probably won't). Today the swelling was nowhere to be seen, and I was allowed to pet both his chin and cheeks again. Close call!

Having stung such a cute cat should be punishable by a painful death! Which I assume was actually the last thing the wasp experienced.