May 24 2010
Dilemmas
Early morning ficus shadow against the ceiling
What’s more annoying: the cats prying the door open so a cold breeze immediately freezes you (bonus: expensively heated air wafts out at the same time!), or having to get up when you’re in the middle of something (and/or insufficiently caffeinated) to let them in or out?
I hope it stops raining one of these days so I can leave the door open.
Despite the unseasonable and unreasonable rain predicted for this week, I’m gambling that the power won’t go out. I finally emptied out the buckets of water on the back porch, which were standing by in case of an outage, but were now home to a horrifying number of mosquito larvae. I should do the same with anything water-containing in Junk Alley beside my house, but much like the cat dilemma, I can’t decide which is worse: emptying out countless pieces of junk in various stages of decomposition now, or being eaten alive by mosquitoes later.
Mosquitoes love me. I am magically delicious to them. Now, you’d think someone as bitter as I am wouldn’t make good skeeter eating, but you’d be wrong. Possibly I’m like bittersweet chocolate to them. All I know is that it’s been like this my whole life, and when I was a kid, my parents used to joke that if the mosquito kids were good, they’d get to have me for dessert. The mosquito kids must have been a lot better behaved than we kids were.
One of the great things about San Francisco is that it’s mosquito-free, for some reason. It’s basically bug-free, as I recall, though there was the occasional fly. This may be why every apartment I ever lived in or visited in San Francisco had no screens in the windows. As time goes by, my requirements for an ideal home have reduced down to basics, such as screens in the windows (and windows that open and close); closets; counter and cupboard space in the kitchen; thorough insulation; and adequate heating.
What does your dream home look like?
5 Responses to “Dilemmas”
Your requirements for a home sound reasonable to me….go for it!!
How nice to be in a bug free environment. Sounds like heaven.
jx
Oh, and a bathtub and a gas stove which lights without matches would be good, too. 🙂
Like you mosquitoes like to make a meal out of me, when I had a cottage, this is the time of the year where I would keep away, black fly season was deadly for me.
Dream house = old farm house (that has all the charm of an older home, but completely renovated), a couple of acres (so I have a kitchen garden), a couple of out buildings and it needs to be by the sea. I don’t think I’m asking for much;)
Jennifer – That sounds completely reasonable to me!
Guy – It’s because we’re so sweet! 🙂