These are some freak nasty pictures of a camel spider and scorpion from Ben. Ben says if you zoom in you can see the spider's beady little eyes...no thanks!
Friday, July 18, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
2008 Shaha Reunion Notes
Everyone talking to Ben on the web cam.
Emily votes that the reunion's over now and we should all go home.
I think they're both trying to give high-fives.Don't they look celestial?
Once again, Jimmy succeeds in giving me the rabbit ears...doh!
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Maintenance
Hey Familia,
Hope everyone is doing well and has recovered from several days of too little sleep and too many of those Albertson's sodas...yuck! It was wonderful to spend some time together...thanks for all of your efforts in getting to the reunion. We got back about midnight on the 7th, and Dad left early the next day for a TDY trip to Ft. Lee, Virginia. That morning I noticed that in our absence (just like last year), the mud-dobbing swallows had returned and had begun building a nest high above our front door. I was determined not to let them do this again, since last summer I spent six weeks cleaning bird doo-doo off the porch. Even more disconcerting than the nest was another little mud blob adjacent to it...the wasps had set up housekeeping too...help me! I decided that both hovels had to go and armed myself for battle...ladder, broom, hose with powerful nozzle attached and left the garage door open in case I had to make a hasty retreat from the wasps. I climbed the ladder and hosed off the swallow nest which came down fairly easily, then brushed off the remnants with the broom. The wasp nest was, naturally, far more stubborn, but gradually began to wilt under the water pressure from the hose. I was looking up through my water-spotted glasses and started to see something that looked scary...like waspish-looking insect abdomens, so I beat a quick retreat down the ladder. In my haste, I didn't notice that there was one more rung left on the ladder, and stepped onto the porch waaay to soon, losing my balance and staggering backward where I performed a lovely reverse dive off of the porch into a very prickly evergreen, which will never be the same. The only good news regarding this story is that I didn't break anything, no one was watching, and the wasp larvae didn't have stingers yet...I think it will be awhile before I apply for a job in pest extermination. Be careful out there! Love, Mom
Hope everyone is doing well and has recovered from several days of too little sleep and too many of those Albertson's sodas...yuck! It was wonderful to spend some time together...thanks for all of your efforts in getting to the reunion. We got back about midnight on the 7th, and Dad left early the next day for a TDY trip to Ft. Lee, Virginia. That morning I noticed that in our absence (just like last year), the mud-dobbing swallows had returned and had begun building a nest high above our front door. I was determined not to let them do this again, since last summer I spent six weeks cleaning bird doo-doo off the porch. Even more disconcerting than the nest was another little mud blob adjacent to it...the wasps had set up housekeeping too...help me! I decided that both hovels had to go and armed myself for battle...ladder, broom, hose with powerful nozzle attached and left the garage door open in case I had to make a hasty retreat from the wasps. I climbed the ladder and hosed off the swallow nest which came down fairly easily, then brushed off the remnants with the broom. The wasp nest was, naturally, far more stubborn, but gradually began to wilt under the water pressure from the hose. I was looking up through my water-spotted glasses and started to see something that looked scary...like waspish-looking insect abdomens, so I beat a quick retreat down the ladder. In my haste, I didn't notice that there was one more rung left on the ladder, and stepped onto the porch waaay to soon, losing my balance and staggering backward where I performed a lovely reverse dive off of the porch into a very prickly evergreen, which will never be the same. The only good news regarding this story is that I didn't break anything, no one was watching, and the wasp larvae didn't have stingers yet...I think it will be awhile before I apply for a job in pest extermination. Be careful out there! Love, Mom
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
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