Open Thread

About bedbugs, what I want to see is practical information on keeping them out of your house. I can recognize them (I think…from all the pictures), and I have read all kinds of things about how not to bring them home when travelling. I have seen sprays in the store which seem like they are a waste, like if you see one, bring in the cavalry — i.e. professional exterminators immediately.

Critters, including mice in a house don’t bother me as much as ants & roaces and now, bedbugs!!!

ROTFLMAO, M4L.

If I found a dead racoon in my kitchen drawer, I would cash in my chips. That would freaking finish me. I lived for a while in a beach house off season (another saga completely) and under the house were “critters”. Turned out they were alternatively: Oppossum, racoons, rats, occassionally cats. The squirrels stuck to the roof. I got a wilderness badge for that one.

Cobble, I know I am definately a bit of a freak with color and aesthetics and a little OCDish myself, so sometimes I suffer with these things. In Kansas City, I bought an extremely cool house which was fieldstone on the bottom half of the house (color components of rock – ochre, tan, grey, yellow, greenish). I reproduced these colors and painted the interior walls of the house with variations of these colors, testing the way light hit the walls in individual rooms. And the result from paint alone was beautiful, if I can brag. And when I sold it, I sold it to an artist from Hallmark.

M4L, OK, I won’t blow up the place. Thanks. I will look for the links….

dona: after reading all your posts on the Stoop Odyssey, I had a thought…it’s like a new car. Find a nice stone and make a nice dep scratch where it’s quite visible. You’ll totally relax after that.