Oh, the horror!!

[dreamshark]

Look what I found inside my window - an old wasp's nest!! Even though it looks like it's been there since ancient Roman times and is obviously empty, I'm afraid to touch it.

There's also a lot of dust and not two, but FOUR sash weights. I'll be darned - double hung windows! The top casements are so thoroughly cemented in with layers of paint that it never occurred to me that they could move.

Comments

[susandennis]

Wonder if wasps have a Smithsonian??

[dreamshark.livejournal.com]

Heh. I hope not - it's gone now. And I'd purely hate to have the Hornet Historical Society after me.

I thought

[lsanderson.livejournal.com]

That all the old windows wuz double hung. Then there wuz a great campaign in the '70s to efficientize 'em by locking the top ones, which, of course, defeats the heat exchanger mode they were designed for.