Do you know how when you are stung by a honeybee, for the first few seconds you feel a rapidly building heat, but aren’t yet certain that you have been stung? Yesterday, while working ( painting the bathroom ) on my house, I was stung, and I knew instantaneously that I had been stung, because it felt as though molten metal had dropped onto my shoulder blade. This was no honeybee sting, as it turned out. I had been stung by a bald-faced hornet! Those damned aggressively cantankerous bugs don’t... Sign in to see full entry.