Eww - Grossest Thing Ever
Let me preface this by saying that I love my apartment. It has central air. That pretty much guarantees I will always love my apartment.
However, I discovered something tonight so disturbing, so icky, so shiver-inducing, that I immediately ran here to the computer to blog it. No, not more mushrooms.
While leaning over a dish of freshly baked chicken, I heard a small buzzing noise. At first I thought it was just the sound of juices sizzling as I checked the meat for pink areas of death. The more I listened the more it began to sound more like insect noise. Fly in the house? That happens, sure. I looked up into the vent hood over the stove - specifically at the light, guessing that’s where any little bugger would be. Still nothing.
Then my focus zeroed in on the mesh vent cover - a semi-spherical dome of tightly woven metal strips. Inside, buzzing furiously in the small space are approximately 10 or so flies! Ewwwww! They can’t get out, that I can tell so far - but how the F did they get in to begin with? Are they dropping teeny bits of fly gross-ness on my stove? I don’t dare remove the dome to clear them out, nor spray it with Raid since it’s so close to eating areas. So nasty.
update: there’s at least one fly IN the living room now. did it come from the vent? somewhere else? is it just one or are they just taking turns? man, what a downer.
I’ve noticed this the last couple of summers here when it’s really hot - there are lots of flies in doors.
I remember when I was living in San Diego, we used Simple Green to kill ants. It’s non-toxic, bio-degradable, and it cleans at the same time. Safe to use in the kitchen.
Rminiscent of a scene in the movie Amityville Horror….yuk!
That would be…”reminiscent”!
I just got back from a week trip in Berkeley. Our apartment’s AC had been broken the week before I left and I presume it was fixed sometime when I was gone. Anyway, I came back today to find nearly all my plants dead and a barrack of an ant army. The plants were dead presumably due to the insane heat and no AC, but the ants! I literally spent hours tonight killing and cleaning up ant corpses. Ah! One is literally crawling on my hand AS I type this comment… ewwww.
To say something a bit more philosophical, as I driving back from IKEA tonight and pondering the ant invasion, I was thinking about the modern experience of nature-detachment and how interesting it is to see our reaction when nature doesn’t respect our defined boundaries. I mean, who cares about a few ants?