Mississippi Bugs
Okay. For anyone who doesn't know (and clearly doesn't know me very well): I'm not big on bugs. Gnats, mosquitoes, ants...those I'm okay with. Bees, Spiders, and unidentifiables are creepy. What if it jumps on you as you go to kill it. What if you let it be, then find it on your face when you wake up in the morning? Ew. Ew. Ew. And as far as spiders go, I can kill the iddy biddy ones...but when I find a "HUGE" spider...no one else seems to think it's that big.
Anyway, upon deciding to move to MS I was immediately concerned about bugs, their size, and their quantity. And everyone who knows me well warned me lots.
Honestly, it's been less of a problem in some ways, and more of a problem in others. First of all I should say: Yes, yes indeed there are lots of bugs. But, they haven't been quite as big and scary as I imagined. In fact, I've even killed some on my own (only because I had no other option, mind you.)
Mostly they're spiders. Apparently there was a cockroach in the kitchen one night. Kenny and I both said "AH!" at the same time...but I saw a spider instead (thank goodness). Now, if you live in WV, and you have this many bugs in your house..it's because you live in a shit-hole. This is a pretty nice house in a nice development, and there are still bugs everywhere. The landlord doesn't really take care of the yard (he just mows and moves on) and there are lots of trees. I still contend that if all the leaves were cleaned up and the gardens maintained a little it wouldn't be quite so bad. There are piles of leaves etc. by the doors and things like that.
So...today I am sitting here at the computer..and the living room has kind of a vaulted ceiling..up on the wall way beyond my reach is a good sized spider. Shiny and black. I panic. He's moving around quite a bit so I go and equip myself with the flyswatter. Kenny's flyswatter has far too short of a handle...so I equip my other hand with his tennis shoe. The spider heads down the wall towards the computer chair (thank God I saw him or I might have been eaten alive). I watch and wait.
As I'm waiting, I notice what looks like a fat straight pretzel stick on the carpet beside the coffee table. Fearing it's alive, I run my sandal over the top of it. OMG. It coils up. Was it a worm? Who finds a WORM on the carpet?! I don't know. I put a heavy bowl over it. Kenny can tackle it when he comes home. By this time the spider is down near the computer chair. I scream a war cry and smack him with the shoe. Ta-da.
I'm hoping it is the year of the great Mississippi ice storm that they are apparently due for to perhaps kill off a bunch of bugs this winter.
Anyway, upon deciding to move to MS I was immediately concerned about bugs, their size, and their quantity. And everyone who knows me well warned me lots.
Honestly, it's been less of a problem in some ways, and more of a problem in others. First of all I should say: Yes, yes indeed there are lots of bugs. But, they haven't been quite as big and scary as I imagined. In fact, I've even killed some on my own (only because I had no other option, mind you.)
Mostly they're spiders. Apparently there was a cockroach in the kitchen one night. Kenny and I both said "AH!" at the same time...but I saw a spider instead (thank goodness). Now, if you live in WV, and you have this many bugs in your house..it's because you live in a shit-hole. This is a pretty nice house in a nice development, and there are still bugs everywhere. The landlord doesn't really take care of the yard (he just mows and moves on) and there are lots of trees. I still contend that if all the leaves were cleaned up and the gardens maintained a little it wouldn't be quite so bad. There are piles of leaves etc. by the doors and things like that.
So...today I am sitting here at the computer..and the living room has kind of a vaulted ceiling..up on the wall way beyond my reach is a good sized spider. Shiny and black. I panic. He's moving around quite a bit so I go and equip myself with the flyswatter. Kenny's flyswatter has far too short of a handle...so I equip my other hand with his tennis shoe. The spider heads down the wall towards the computer chair (thank God I saw him or I might have been eaten alive). I watch and wait.
As I'm waiting, I notice what looks like a fat straight pretzel stick on the carpet beside the coffee table. Fearing it's alive, I run my sandal over the top of it. OMG. It coils up. Was it a worm? Who finds a WORM on the carpet?! I don't know. I put a heavy bowl over it. Kenny can tackle it when he comes home. By this time the spider is down near the computer chair. I scream a war cry and smack him with the shoe. Ta-da.
I'm hoping it is the year of the great Mississippi ice storm that they are apparently due for to perhaps kill off a bunch of bugs this winter.