Lifestyles of the frantic and frazzled

The exterminator called this morning with no warning.
At best, I had two hours before he landed on my doorstep to get the weekend tornado cleaned up.
At worse, he was just around the corner, which he has done before
I have to boast that I got it under control in under 30 minutes.
It was mostly clothes & papers.
Now mind you, if you would come to my house, you'd probably gasp in horror.
 But it's fine to my standards provided you don't go jumping around in the laundry room 'cause my chest freezer is stacked to the ceiling with dirty laundry
I'm not really sure where it all popped up from because I was caught up on Friday, but there it is.
He can spray anyway & that's what counts.
He may even be able to finally spray in the boys room.
This is a big deal to me because three years ago if he was to have called I would have had to schedule it a week later.
It would have taken me that long to just shovel & hide crap.
I've come a long way in a short time.
Unfortunately, it took my Mom dying to kick my butt in gear.

I'm about to the same point as Cowboy: it's a waste to spend $32 a month on an exterminator-however, I have lived with roaches.
They're not pretty, they're not sanitary.
I think I would rather go without certain things than have to go back to living with roaches & right now give or take the fleas, spiders & stink bugs-we're bug free.

I tell you we have a stink bug invasion.
At least, I think they're stink bugs.
They're weird and flat and camo colored and creepy.
I don't know where they've sneaked in at, but they're all over the house now.
Usually this time of year we get a ladybug invasion, but maybe these things have eaten the ladybugs?
Honestly, I'd rather have a ladybug fall in my morning coffee than these aliens.

It was a kinda odd weather day.
The sky was threatening all day & it just felt strange outside, then around 5 pm we got a gully washer with a bit of lightning, and then it's just rained the rest of the evening.
There was a brief period where we thought it was all over, so I grabbed a backpack and Badger, and we went looking for more alien eggs before they rotted.
We got a backpack full & they were heavy!
 I wouldn't have thought they'd be so heavy.
It started raining, so I told Badger if she walked superfast we'd walk the tracks because it's faster, you just have to be sure you're at a point where you can jump to safety if a train comes through.
We got so far up the track, and she started “oh mamma the trains gonna come oh mamma” so I told her hush up, and we butt scooted down the under path.
Owie I so do not recommend scooting on your butt down a wet muddy embankment.
Frankly, I think I would rather meet the train.
And by the way-there was no train in sight.
They're fairly predictable & it wasn't time for a train.
She's just always been scared to death of trains, which if you ask me is mighty strange for a kid who practically lives on the tracks.
I had to come home & toss my jeans in the wash 'cause I was afraid that old coal dust and mud would never come out & I only have one pair of jeans that I'm comfortable in.
But yeah, we have hedge apples in every room of the house & I'll see if it does repel anything.
Cowboy gave me an odd look when I explained why I was putting hedge apples everywhere.
He grew up with them, but said he never heard anything about them repelling spiders.
Some guy is selling those things for like $10 plus shipping & handling for 4 and here I can go out the road a piece and pick as many as I want for free.
And he has a lot of good testimonials about what all they've repelled.

There was a dog on Craig's List this evening named Bear.
Apparently there was some big stink about him and the OP got flagged and removed.
The reply was still up & it looked just like our Bear, so Heron sent the lady a text and made her give him a picture of our Bear.
She still has him and he's OK.
But somewhere out there is Bear's twin.
Heron said it's possible it really is his twin: she had two pups left & Heron took one-leaving the other.