Please take a moment to read about the nightmare I recently went 
through at the hands of an alien invader no bigger than my fingernail….it may just save your life, and the lives of those you care about.
I was outside blowing leaves with one of those backpack blowers. You may be asking why I am just now blowing leaves in April, but it’s a long story and it makes me look lazy, so let’s not get sidetracked.
I was walking the backyard, blowing a wide swath through the November leaves, pushing them into the woods. I was so focused on where those leaves were going, that I failed to recognize I was walking headlong into an ambush, arranged by a nemesis that waited patiently for me to step in to their trap.
For over a week now, little inch worms have been arriving, gathering, spinning webs and waiting patiently. I’ve been watching them, taking them down whenever I can.
So I was watching the ground, and did not see the 1.5 million worms that had gathered in the tree, hanging all around me. As I’m walking I feel something land on my head, I reach up to find it’s a worm.
Looking up I then run head first into another worm.
I spin around to feel one crawling on my neck.
I turn the other way and there are two worms in front of me who appear to be mating (why are they mating??)
At that moment a worm drops from the tree, and lands in between my glasses and my eyeball. I squeeze my eyes shut, hoping the sheer force of my lashes will crush it. Worms are now dropping all around me, like tiny kamikazes determined to defend their way of life.
I use the backpack blower to fight my way out, as the dangling spawns of satan continued to torment me. I look down to find worms all over my shoes. I’m struggling to clear the webs from my head and pull the little parasites out of my arm hair (why must I be so harry??) It’s then that I feel a worm drop down the back of my shirt. I drop the handle of the leaf blower, which is still blowing full blast, bouncing up and down off of the ground. I reach for it when I feel a tiny tickle moving around the waistband of my boxer shorts.
Now I am dancing around, the leaf blower still flapping in the air, as I attempt to grab the worm without sending it even lower. I can only hope that my wife does not come out at this moment, to see her “shining knight” whimpering like a small child and jumping around the yard. I get control of the leaf blower, and run toward the door of the house. I open the screen door and run headlong into an inch worm web, that I had just cleared out 30 minutes earlier!
I stood in the sun room, visibly shaken. I looked out at that tree, still draped in inch worms and their webs, daring me to come back for more.
I’m told that if I wait a little longer, the worms will burrow into the ground, and be gone until the fall….I will outlast them.
But the point here is clear….Guys, you must suspend all outside yard duties until such a time as it is deemed safe to do so….your wife will understand. But if you must go out there, be sure you keep your eyes open….and wear a belt.
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