eep op
When we moved in, lots of things got piled into the garage with little thought to what was where. After all, we were moving two people's lives into a new place, and we could deal with the straggler stuff another day, right? Then, about a year ago, the chorus moved a lot of its crap into there, too. Now, it was officially cluttered.
Meanwhile, the question of which type(s) of pests would prevail in our newly-constructed home was over. The answer: wolf spiders, a small shiny black spider that might be the widow, and pill [doodle] bugs. The garage is the spiders' constant battleground, with the pill bugs as their wandering rations. There's another spider species here, but not in the garage, just outside and occasionally along our ceilings.
We tackled the garage this weekend ("another day"), putting about six man-hours into it, not including the pre-fab shelving units I'd made. We made judgement calls about what to keep (CDs of Way-Showers) and what to toss (cassettes of same), and tried to use the space more efficiently. I can say that we're pretty happy with the results.
In the process, we killed two wolf spiders and several of the shiny ones, and swept away the carcasses of a few hundred pill bugs. I think the key to keeping the spider count down will be to block their food (pill bugs) from getting in. Somehow. When I went back in there a little bit ago, I found one of each kind of spider where we'd cleaned them out before. Natural selection never sleeps.
Meanwhile, the question of which type(s) of pests would prevail in our newly-constructed home was over. The answer: wolf spiders, a small shiny black spider that might be the widow, and pill [doodle] bugs. The garage is the spiders' constant battleground, with the pill bugs as their wandering rations. There's another spider species here, but not in the garage, just outside and occasionally along our ceilings.
We tackled the garage this weekend ("another day"), putting about six man-hours into it, not including the pre-fab shelving units I'd made. We made judgement calls about what to keep (CDs of Way-Showers) and what to toss (cassettes of same), and tried to use the space more efficiently. I can say that we're pretty happy with the results.
In the process, we killed two wolf spiders and several of the shiny ones, and swept away the carcasses of a few hundred pill bugs. I think the key to keeping the spider count down will be to block their food (pill bugs) from getting in. Somehow. When I went back in there a little bit ago, I found one of each kind of spider where we'd cleaned them out before. Natural selection never sleeps.