Took a Bit of Break

First I went up to San Francisco, then I went out to St. Louis, then my sinuses went all wonky, and now it's 100 degrees outside.

I know: excuses, excuses.

I do get powerfully lazy when it's 100 degrees outside. Something to do with having no air conditioning. I can listen to my neighbors' air conditioners, though, and imagine that they're cooling down my house. (It doesn't actually help much. Or at all.)

Fortunately, I have ceiling fans in two parts of the house, and a little oscillating fan that's making it bearable to be working at the computer right now. That's kept me from having to run off to a nice, air-conditioned hotel for a few days.

Meanwhile, not much is going on around the house. I have mostly conquered a plague of moths that threatened to overtake my kitchen. This involved a lot of squashing of moths, and a lot of throwing away of open packages of things that might possibly have moth larvae in them. At any rate, I'm squashing a moth or two an evening these days, rather than 20 or more at a time.

Makes you want to come and visit, eh?

So I probably shouldn't mention the plague of teeny tiny baby spiders that assaulted the lap over my bed the other night. Dozens of itsy bitsy spiders aren't all that much better than a really big spider. The problem is, you never know if you've gotten them all. (Speaking of really big spiders, there's one that's staked out a territory between a couple of bushes in the back yard. I know, because I walked through her web. Fortunately, she ran for the trees, rather than for my hair.)

I'll stop with the creepy-crawly anecdotes for now. Tomorrow, there's furniture shopping on the agenda. Wish me luck.