I was thinking this morning about how to get rid of some of the bugs which are eating some of my plants and then I got to thinking about how that might make a good blog! Last night I went in to my bedroom to turn down the bed, (is that phrase too old fashioned for you guys?) and when I came out of the bedroom I saw what looked like a piece of black fuzz or lint. I took my cane, (thank goodness!) and tried to push it around to make sure it was fuzz or lint and the thing started to move. It wasn't moving very fast so I went back into my bedroom and picked up a "Kleenex" and came back and picked it up, with that, a big old spider!!! Ugh! I think it came in under my screen door or in the door while I was letting Rose outside to go home! I shut the door right away and since I had my fan on and the window open was plenty cool enough so I didn't have to keep the door open! I, after picking up the spider and giving him the ride of his life in the toilet, sat down in my lounge chair. I started some of my prayers and reached over to pick up a booklet and here was some kind of "bug" sitting on the booklet! I thought, where are they coming from? Needless to say I felt creepy and crawly for quite awhile, even after I got in bed!! Mark, one of my nephews said at my party to give him a call and he would come over and spray my plants or whatever. I haven't called him yet about it but I seriously think I will this weekend! 
Then I got to thinking about gophers, those stinking little things that make piles of dirt all over the lawn and anyplace else they can and are so hard to get rid of!!! There is one in our yard here and there is a neighborhood cat that sits right by the mounds of dirt hoping I think for a good meal! When we lived in Fresno, I had so many gophers in my yard! They would pull my tomato plants or any other thing right down into their "nests"! I thought one day, I'll get you so I got the hose and I started finding out where the holes were and started filling them up with water. Not smart, I was standing there putting water into one hole after another and looked down and here between my feet was a really wet gopher!!!! I screamed and dropped the hose, the neighbors came running over and I will bet to this day they are talking about that!!! When Cappy came home from work I told him and he went to the store and got a few "gopher bombs" put them down into the holes and covered them up and well, for awhile we didn't have any more gophers there!!!! My Father, when I was little used to take stryknine (I know that isn't spelled right!) and he would dig around the mounds and find out where the hole was that the gopher had come out of and take a long, really long-handled big spoon and quickly take the lid off the can of poison and dump a spoonful into each hole. He had to cover the can each time he took a spoonful out of it because it was not only deadly poison to smell but also to ingest!!! How I know that is because one time when I was very small, those terrible winds we had in Wawawai had blown down the sack where my father had put the poison in the garage rafters and I took the spoon and I guess tried to lick the spoon. I came into the house gagging and my mother wanted to know what I had done, (she was nursing a baby at the time) and anyway, I took her out to the garage and showed her the "spoon"! She called the Dr. who was 20 miles away and he told her to give me some warm lard to get me to vomit. She put some lard in a spoon and put it on the stove. Yup, you guessed it, I did throw up but I had a blister on my tongue for days!! The Dr did get there on time or I wouldn't be doing this "blogging"!!! Bye.
