Wednesday 2 October 2024

Houston, we have a problem!

 The joy of living in the country is its critters. I had a mission. I'd noticed that the Crumbly Acres camera was a bit cloudy. Out I went with some window cleaner. It looked like ghosts, but it's just my spidery friends spreading their webs.


There were issues. First I had to convince the wasp that it needed to leave.


You can see where the rain has left mineral deposits. 


I successfully persuaded the wasp to take off. That looks much better! 


I had to readjust it, as it fell forward. It turned out to be a good position! There is a little bolt that I needed to tighten. Back indoors! Sadly, I forgot to grab my cleaning cloth. I had to use the hem of my dress! 

17 comments:

Val Ewing said...

When I worked in Security at a Power Plant, we had some tilt, shift, zoom cameras that would always get wasps on it them in the fall. We'd watch them crawl all around the camera. They were sometimes more interesting than watching a pile of coal.

Neat cameras to watch the outside world.

eileeninmd said...

You are brave to be close to the wasp!
Take care, have a wonderful day!

Grandma K said...

Hopefully the wasp doesn't return - with friends to establish a nest! Love that amera however. What wonderful things it must record!

Anvilcloud said...

Autumn preps continue.

RedPat said...

There should be some good clear images coming.

Yamini MacLean said...

Hari OM
That reminds me I have spectacles and screens to clean... YAM xx

DrumMajor said...

Glad the wasp didn't venture under your dress! Linda in Kansas

Tom said...

...life is all about maintenance!

Nancy J said...

Very summery dress, and put to good use.

Elephant's Child said...

Tom's comment is right on the money. Glad that the wasp didn't resist eviction.

Christine said...

We have mice in the garage trying to trap them.

Woody Meristem said...

Spiders are the bane of all of us who run camera traps, but they sure are interesting critters.

Mae Travels said...

Your labors keeping your trailcams going do yield good videos! I hope you think it’s worth it.
best, mae at maefood.blogspot.com

Kay said...

I guess your wasp wanted to be on camera to be filmed. I'm glad you were able to stay safe.

Barbara Rogers said...

That's great to get your camera lens clean and pointed right! Now for seeing who comes visiting!

Red said...

Your camera requires a lot of upkeep but gives awesome results.

Sallie (FullTime-Life) said...

Wasps sting Jenn! You must know their secret language (and actually that wouldn't surprise me a bit "knowing" you as I do from your posts about Crumbly Acres! I look forward to the next pictures from the very clean trail cam!