My mom and dad were militant roach exterminators. My dad use to hit them with his bare hand. My mom sprayed them with Raid until they were swimming (backstroke) in the stuff. THEN she would put the can on top of them because it (the can) was concave. This gas chamber technique was mainly used to prevent the "enemy" from dragging its Raid soaked body up your leg as you later sat watching TV.I don't have roaches (or flies). If one does on occasion show up, it isn't long before one of the cats gets it. I only have to watch and make sure they don't leave it for me on my pillow as a gift.
When I woke up this morning I saw sitting on my beautiful wall by my beautiful cork board a hideous roach. I have checked regularly and he has remained there all day. Until recently, while typing this blog, he moved to the picture on my cork board (pictured above....can you see him?) I WILL NOT hit a roach (my weapon is a broom) when it is over my head. Are you kidding me? They fly like like kamikaze and I am always their target. UGH! So I am waiting for my cat's to step up and I hope before bed.
Then this afternoon I got an email from Martha Stewart with a picture attached and the subject "Our Best Spring Party Plans". I like lanterns and I like butterflies. As a matter of fact I ran into a butterfly last week with my car and was REALLY upset about it. But in light of what I have been dealing with today this picture creeps me out. Too many insects in one spot maybe?
How realistic is this decoration in South Texas? June Bugs, Cockroaches, Woolly Worms, Mosquitos now that is what we have down here this time of year. So how funny would it be to make these lanterns and glue fake cockroaches to them?
Come to think of it, not to funny. I would run screaming from that back yard party like a crazy women looking for a broom.
I wish I was like my mom or dad.
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...and don't forget ants and fleas! EGADS!! Those lanterns ARE pretty creepy in light of the glaring water bug in the previous picture. LOL
Aneeter
So here it is bedtime. I decided to put the roach out for the night. I placed a cup over him on the wall, then slide a piece of paper between the wall and the top of the cup. The roach fell backwards on his back and just laid there. I then put the cup with the roach in it on the porch along with two cats and bid them all a goodnight.
YOU ARE SOOOOO FUNNY!!! You need to write a book called the Wit and Wisdom of Hanna! It would sell millions of copies, you'd be rich and share all that money with your friends!
I would like to see latterns with fleas and roaches. Maybe sneak up to the homes that are on the Tour of Homes and hang them in their trees, now that would be funny!
Cathern: I think you and I exhausted the cockroarch (said like Shirley Q) stories when we crawled down memory lane. It's not the big ones that you have to worry about...they are only passing through. It's the little ones that are transported in furniture....like a pie safe. :-)
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