Feeling like Winnie the Pooh

Well it was a Beautiful, Windy, Blustery, day and with that kind of a Winnie the Pooh" day and nothing to do I decided to go out and hang my bird feeder.
Well , before I get into my story, pop on the picture of the bottom of the tree trunk and your see a close up of our tree squirrel that Maggie chases everyday. She has never caught it! She keeps trying. ha! Now back to my story:
Not having a limb to hang my feeder on I decided to just put a big nail into this big hole I saw on our tree and hang my feeder from it. So went and got one of Dad's big long nails and proceeded to jabbing it into the tree when felt something on my hand and pulled it out quickly and saw these three giant red ants! I shook them off "really fast" before they had a chance to bite into me. THANK GOODNESS! Then I ran to the garage and got this bug spray and went back and man did I ever spray that hole! Just then thousands of ants [giants again ] came out and I kept on spraying them. Ran and got dad cause it was unbelievable how many and wanted him to see this! He said they were carpenter ants. They eat the inside of the tree. If thats a fact and had my way that tree would go but dad said it provides shade in these hot summer days. We sprayed seemed like forever and sure a few but not many got away. Then I was going to patch up the hole but had no filler of any kind on hand so went and got my new can of white spray paint and I emptied the whole can down into that hole and around the outside. Check out my pictures!!
Wow! how did Pooh keep from being stung by those bees? and on the other hand how did I keep from being bitten up?? What a day! so hey, check in every now and then, you just never know what great adventure you might miss in the life of mamashap! ha.