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October 24, 2007
Bugville
The heat wave seems to be driving more bugs into the house, maybe because I'm leaving more windows open. Just this morning, for example, I noticed a spider crawling around on the floor near my workspace and neatly trapped it under a glass for Gene to deal with when he comes home from work.
Next month Gene is going out of town for a couple of weeks, and I am feeling grateful that we have so many water glasses. I imagine that by the time he comes home I will have built a small city of bug towers, where bugs live trapped beneath cups that I do not dare move in case they escape and creep me out. Maybe I'll try to trap multiple bugs under the same glass and make little labels for them, like "Bug Library" and "Bug Saloon" and "Bug Dance Hall." I can print out little screenshots from movies and tape them to the insides of the glass to make a bug cinema. Or I can make a tiny stethoscope out of a paper clip and a little EKG machine from a Christmas light and call that glass the bug hospital.
Or I guess I could just learn to kill my own bugs. But I think the bug city is more likely.
Posted by didofoot at October 24, 2007 12:56 PM
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Nod. If you run out of water glasses, empty olive cans also contain spiders very well. You can set up surprises for Gene -- disingenuously pretend to have dropped the olives while putting away the groceries, and ask him to pick them up for you so that you can finish the delicious dinner you're just in the middle of making to welcome him back.
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at October 24, 2007 04:42 PM
I made a little label and taped it to my spider glass yesterday. It said "Bug Gas Station. Bug Gas: $4/gallon." Hey, times are hard all over.
Not having read my blog, Gene was I think a little weirded out by my bug gas station.
Posted by: didofoot at October 25, 2007 03:55 PM
And yet some people get Bugs because they're supposedly more fuel-efficient.
Posted by: sean at October 25, 2007 06:01 PM
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