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Ginny had a neat quote yesterday,
We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit.
Tom Brown Jr
A lot has been going on here, and to top it off yesterday I found we had a small bedbug infestation. It’s not as bad as the one we had in November 2017, a month or so after we took the train to see Kaitlin and Torben. We managed to get rid of the bugs without chemicals then, and this one should be easier because we caught it a lot earlier, but it will take time. Never a dull moment.
The interesting thing is it’s been nine months since we took the train to see Kaitlin and Torben again. We were careful to keep our suitcases in plastic bags on the train and took the recommended precautions in our motel, so we thought we had escaped the bugs this time. Maybe the precautions slowed them down, or maybe they came in some other way… at any rate, they are here now and eventually they will be gone.
Patience and good humor, or like the chickadee, indomitable spirit? Yes, we could use that right now. 🙂
Thanks, Ginny!
July 3, 2020
Well, that can’t be a lot of fun. We hope you are able to get things under control quickly. We will cross our paws for a speedy resolution.
Woos – Lightning, Misty, and Timber
Thanks. 🙂
oh no! I wish you didn’t have to go through it again.
they may just live in old buildings!
I don’t know much about them. will have to research it.
they infiltrated our old library a few years ago. they did use chemicals to get rid of them. it was closed for about a month. I think they had to spray several times. it was said that homeless people brought them in. they would come in from the weather and sit around and I guess the bugs were in there clothes!
sad. because those people needed shelter.
I wonder if there are essential oils that might get rid of them. don’t know that much about the oils either! so will read up on it. good luck! xoxo
It’s not worth getting upset about. We know what to do, and Andy and I make a good team.
“Bed” and “bug” are two words I hope I never have to used together. Glad you caught them early on.
If you don’t travel you’re not likely to get them, I think.
Oh, my. I feel your pain. We had cockroaches last winter. I called an exterminator because I just could not deal with anything else. They creep me out. Turned out, we did not have them as bad as I was afraid. I caught them before they got bad. And maybe could have dealt with them. They were just in one small area of the kitchen.
If you don’t mind, will you tell us what steps you take. Never know when it might come in handy. I would think they came in some other way than the train trip 9 months ago. But I don’t really know.
I know the last time or two we stayed in a hotel, before we took our bags in, I went in and pulled back the sheets and looked along the seams…you know the edge of the mattress.
We have bug-proof covers for our box springs and mattresses, we vacuum a lot, take the bed apart and look for them, and our beds are islands. The legs are in containers of diatomaceous earth . The bugs can’t crawl up to the bed or down to the floor without going through the earth, which kills them.
I’ve heard that Borax does the same thing to cockroaches. I don’t like bedbugs, but cockroaches would be a lot worse.
oh wow, not nice…
Not my favorite activity, but nothing to get upset about.
any kind of bug problem is never fun but it sounds like you and Andy took care of it eaily.
It’s nice to already know what to do. Bedbugs are gross, but they don’t spread disease, and that makes a big difference.
Before BedBugs, in the past few years, we used to pick up furniture if it was something we needed from the curb side of our streets. our city picks up anything we sit at the curb. sometimes the things people replace are really nice. now we don’t because we are afraid they will have the dreaded bugs. hope you caught it quick enough to get rid of them quickly… i never even thought about getting them on a train.
When we were first married I bought used furniture, but like you I would never do that now.
Traveling isn’t the only way to get them. My husband’s mother had a caregiver who brought them into her house.
That is so sad! 🙁