The Flying Pest Adventure

A great friend of mine moved to Hawaii a couple years ago. She stayed over Sunday night for a visit. The whole evening was an adventure. First of all it was 85 degrees in my house.

Question #1 - How to bake apple cobbler without raising the temperature another 10 degrees.

Question #2 – How to console myself when I ruin the apple cobbler that I’ve been craving for a week.

Question #3 – How to ignore the skunk, rooster and crickets determined to interrupt our conversation.

Question #4 – How to rid the house of and defend the guests from legions of flying insects.

Friend - there are a lot of bugs in here.

Me- I know. We have so many bugs here in the country.

Friend – No really. I mean there are a lot of bugs landing on me.

Me – Come sit by me. There aren’t any bugs over here.

Later.

Friend – You have to come see this. This couch is covered with bugs!

Me – Get the vacuum!!!

I guess the girls’ opening the windows in the Sand Room was a bad idea. Defective screens ya think? They really were everywhere; all over the ceiling, covering the walls and the furniture, more trying to bust down the screens. It was like a horror movie in minature. Luckily the central vac sucked all of them up in a 30 minute jiffy. This was a fun thing to be doing at midnight. Sorry you missed it.

Question - #5 – How to recover when guest keeps me up talking till 2:00 in the morning and Lovely is up with a fever at 6:00.

“I’m not tired at all” guest replied after I suggested we go to bed. “You know it’s only 10:00 in Hawaii.” “You’ll think 10:00 when an adolescent rooster begins his crowing practice in four hours,” was my response, only in my own head of course.