Oh My! Tonight, I got a small taste of what it must have been like for the Egyptians when Moses was trying to free the children of Israel. CREEPY!!!!!
I walked downstairs after getting little Peter to sleep, and Devin was walking around the living room with a fly swatter. Weird. Then I looked down at my feet. Oh my gosh!!! There were GIANT one inch long fat black FLYING ANTS crawling ALL OVER THE LIVING ROOM!!!! Ummm it was slightly freaky!!! I put on my flip-flops and started a stomp dance around the room trying to kill all the freaky little creatures (I know: Thou Shalt Not Kill... I only kill little creatures if they venture into my home. I don't kill them in their homes if they don't come in mine. It's this little deal we have.) Then, Devin handed the fly swatter over to me, and he ran outside to help the guard turn the bug zapper on. Unfortunately, they unplug it every time it rains, and leave the plug just sitting in the grass, so the adapter tends to rust to the plug. Doh. Thus was the case tonight. So, we had to do a little finagling and found some other adapters and got it working...and my goodness is it 'sparking'!! he he he. It's sad to admit that I revel in the sound of the bug zapper gone wild! ZZZap!! There goes another one! Apparently they're ALL OVER almost every square inch of grass outside.
I guess we left the living room lights on downstairs and while we were putting the kiddies to bed they found a crack in one of the doors leading out to one of the porches. Yuck yuck yuck yuck yuck! I picked up one of Claire's dolls to save it from the pestilence. So, here I am whacking the ground with all my might with an orange fly swatter while holding a pink doll and yelling "Be Gone!!" Pretty picture.
I finally got most of them, Devin turned off the lights to try to dissuade the rest of the party, and we went into the kitchen to check on the apples that were soaking in bleach. He showed me where Andrew had spilled a gallon of water under the stove. We thought it had possibly drowned the mouse that was living under there. When Devin went to show me, we found it lying in a puddle of water, stuck to the ground by some 'mouse catching' glue that we found at the local marche. We really did think it was dead...then it started twitching! AH!!!! So, Devin went to find some cardboard and while I left the room (you all know my delicate nature) and squished it, then took it out to the guard and I watched them look at it. Boys. Gross. We just found another mouse living by the DVD player. Hm. It must want to watch My Little Pony in the morning, too. Anyone want to send us some REAL mouse traps that WORK?????
So, we had real live Bible study tonight. Insects, mice, power outages...This is the life, isn't it?
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