Natchez is currently under a severe thunderstorm warning. It's pretty windy outside. The problem with wind is that a lot of the trees around here are super old, and it doesn't take much to cause their branches (sometimes really big branches) to come crashing to the ground. We'll just hope that they stick with falling to the ground--and not falling on the car or the house.
It was so fun to get to go to church today! After church I went over to the Wesselman's house--they are one of the cute families in the ward--to get the rundown on how to take care of their pets while they are out of town for the next ten days. They have numerous pets: Shelly and Milo, the cats; Gracie and Cocoa, the dogs; two turtles; and one fish. So it's quite the crowd there, but it will be fun to hang out with them for the next week and a half. After I got home this afternoon, I had a nice long nap . . . until the thunder woke me up!
I've been having quite the bug zapping adventures last night and today and have found that what will kill one bug won't necessarily kill another. My hairspray worked great on the cockroach in the bathtub a couple of weeks ago, but when I tried that on this flying cockroach thing I had in here last week, it didn't work, so I had to resort to using the Raid. Raid did the job really fast, but the problem was that even just a couple of sprays stunk up my room for quite a while. So, last night when this really weird beetle-horsefly-looking creature flew into my room, I decided to try to get it without Raid. I first tried hairspray, but it had no effect. Then I tried this really potent air freshener spray that was in the bathroom when I moved into the house--still no effect. Then I tried my Benadryl anti-itch spray, also to no avail. Then, I tried Windex. The Windex seemed to stun it to the point where I could then whip out the fly swatter and get it. I think my room probably smelled worse after all of that than it would have if I had just used the Raid. This morning I tried my hairspray on a spider, and the spider ran away, so I guess it kind of worked for that. Oooh, it's getting quite thundery outside. Yikes! Tomorrow is my second day off, but I'll go into work for a little while around lunch time to help out, as tomorrow is the first day of Junior Ranger Camp.
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