Keeping Knit Simple: Breaking Dawn 1

Thursday, October 27, 2011

21 days.......

We missed our summer monsoons and had all of the season's rain in 5 days last week. Today we called Monroe County Mosquito Control and asked them to bring the napalm. We've got huge ANGRY mosquitoes. No, wait; they're not ANGRY; they're totally PISSED OFF and we're gonna pay for it.

The MC lady was here within half an hour and found the likely source: the swampy jungle lot behind ours. She said that she'd actually forgotten about it; the people who recently rented the house nearby threw their yard cuttings into the jungle and closed off the path she'd made to get in and inspect. She's going to spend time this winter (!!! we need to get rid of the m'effers NOW!) cutting new paths into the lot (which is owned by the county; I can't imagine why no one has bought it /sarcasm) so it'll be easier to spray in there. We're going to throw away our huge pot of bromeliads since water naturally collects in them and they're a prime breeding ground for these m'effers. And these aren't just your run-of-the-mill m'effers, they're the REALLY ANGRY aggressive ones that carry dengue fever.

So while the weather is just about perfect these days, we can't go outside without coming back inside with huge red welts all over us. I took two doses of Benadryl today; good thing I'm used to it or I'd have slept all day. MC lady said that we had 20 inches of rain in those 5 days.

Tomorrow is the body painting contest in Key West at Fantasy Fest, so if it doesn't rain (thank God Rina is turning away from us) we'll go into town to watch the festivities. And take photos. I'm still getting hundreds of hits each month from people looking at last year's nekkididity.

Did I mention that these skeeters are tough little m'effers? Yeah, thought so.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Sunday, September 25, 2011

54 days.

By the way, if you haven't read Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James, you might want to try it. I put it on my wish list at Amazon before I knew anything about it other than it sounded good; that day, someone anonymously gifted the Kindle edition to me. O.M.F.G. Hot doesn't describe it.

It turns out that it was originally Twilight fanfiction called Master of the Universe. It had a huge following and was picked up for publishing. Of course, all references to Twilight, including the names/characters Bella and Edward had to be expunged. Now they're Ana and Christian, and it's quite a story. I didn't buy it myself because it costs $10 and I just can't spend that much on one book on my tight budget. However, before I finished reading this one, I went ahead and bought Fifty Shades Darker. Yep, I paid $10 for it. I'd say it's well worth every penny, even though I haven't started reading it yet :) I loaned the first one to a friend already; unfortunately, Kindle allows a book to be loaned only once.