Saturday, January 26, 2013

chemical warfare

living in florida, the choice is either live with and get used to bugs, including their bites and the body's reaction to their bites, or find methods of putting a border around the living space that keep the bugs out... the best method all around is using natural repellents, chemicals produced by nature that drive bugs away... the next step is used natural chemicals that not only drive them away, but that kill them if they forge ahead into the living space anyway... and the most convenience and common method is to use chemical poisons that can harm any living thing, bt really kills bugs dead, so to speak... due to the cost of the purely natural least harmful remedies to bug infestation natural to florida, i compromise and use carefully selected over the counter insecticides that are rated harmless to plants and animals (as if that is really possible, but it's a compromise, remember)...

and today we headed over to the new place and i did the extermination thing... every crack, every baseboard, every cabinet and cubby-hole, every corner and so on and so forth received the full treatment... no skimping because my inspection of the place and the surrounding land showed many different bugs that like to enter human living spaces (sugar ants, roaches, and so on) and also found a ridiculous number of openings in the walls around pipes, along baseboards, around outlets, in the corners, and even just plain in the walls in the water heater room and other areas...

we like our new home... we'll like it even better after we fix it up a bit :)

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