beth_leonard

There were no fruit flies visible in the house this morning. There were only a few yesterday morning, all destroyed.

Unfortunately, my dryer is also dead, and yesterday was laundry day and I washed the sheets I was planning to have my parents sleep in before realizing the dryer was dead. I think I have spare sheets somewhere... but I'll have to find them after they arrive.

--Beth

Body count for today:

Beth: 7.5
Amber: 0.5 (one fruit fly had 2 hit points, Amber and Mommy teamed up on it.)
Peter: 2
Jon: 0
Fly Paper: 6

Jon insists that a body count is not the proper way to analyze which side is winning the war. But I'm sick of these fruit flies. They first showed up about a week ago, and I foolishly just put the fruit they came from in the trash for the night. They've been getting worse every day, but today was by far the worst, leading to upping the arms race with fly paper.

Don't make me bring out the chemical weapons, you dirty flies!

--Beth

It seems to be that time of year when the ants come in. They've been looking around in the bedrooms and bathroom for the last week or two, but today they finally found the kitchen.

I wonder what time of year "that time of year" really is, so this year I'm blogging the attack, and when it happens again I'll search for it. Late July / early August; it started when the weather got hot and dry.

Luckily, we haven't had "that time of year" for mice/rats in quite some time. There was some evidence that they came and left the garage, but we haven't had any in the house since before Peter was born.

--Beth