BUGS! Ewww!
So, it's finally fall in Fukuoka, so the bug situation is getting a little better. And, unlike my last apartmenti in Japan, the cockroach situation is much improved (although I did see one climbing the stairs up to our landing last night...). All this said, however, we have a bit of an insect issue here!
Petie The Praying Mantis
Meet Petie. He lives on our deck. He generaly keeps to himself, but one night he was really attracted to Ryan's green t-shirt that had been hanging there to dry....
Hanging out laundry seems to be an issue....I was wearing a shirt, for about, oh, 4 hours that I had had hanging up to dry on the deck. Suddenly, it started to get itchy down at the bottom of the side-seam. So, thinking it was the tag or something I went down to re-adjust it. And felt something large, and hard. So I oh so slowly turned up the edge of my shirt and saw something very round, very hard, and very brown and scaly. It looked an awful lot like a cocoon of some sort. So, of couse, I started to pannick.
Forgeting that I had already been "one" with this cocoon for at least four hours, I managed to get the shirt off without pulling it over my head, it took about 5 minutes to do, and I felt like being sick the whole time! Finally got the shirt off and flung it in the corner of the room until Ryan could deal with it later (something that took at least 2 hours for him to build the courage to do!)
Ryan eventually pried the thing off, and flushed it down the toilet. That night, however, something took revenge on us. At about 2 am I woke up to Ryan hollering "Ah! Ah! Ah!". He litteraly flew out of bed and started dancing around the room scratching everywhere.
Some sort of pre-historic misquito (we hope--I swear I heard a buzz) had gotten in through the screen and had eaten us UP! We both had at least 7 or 8 bites, it was awful.
I hink our Karma's screwed right up now!
Petie The Praying Mantis
Meet Petie. He lives on our deck. He generaly keeps to himself, but one night he was really attracted to Ryan's green t-shirt that had been hanging there to dry....
Hanging out laundry seems to be an issue....I was wearing a shirt, for about, oh, 4 hours that I had had hanging up to dry on the deck. Suddenly, it started to get itchy down at the bottom of the side-seam. So, thinking it was the tag or something I went down to re-adjust it. And felt something large, and hard. So I oh so slowly turned up the edge of my shirt and saw something very round, very hard, and very brown and scaly. It looked an awful lot like a cocoon of some sort. So, of couse, I started to pannick.
Forgeting that I had already been "one" with this cocoon for at least four hours, I managed to get the shirt off without pulling it over my head, it took about 5 minutes to do, and I felt like being sick the whole time! Finally got the shirt off and flung it in the corner of the room until Ryan could deal with it later (something that took at least 2 hours for him to build the courage to do!)
Ryan eventually pried the thing off, and flushed it down the toilet. That night, however, something took revenge on us. At about 2 am I woke up to Ryan hollering "Ah! Ah! Ah!". He litteraly flew out of bed and started dancing around the room scratching everywhere.
Some sort of pre-historic misquito (we hope--I swear I heard a buzz) had gotten in through the screen and had eaten us UP! We both had at least 7 or 8 bites, it was awful.
I hink our Karma's screwed right up now!
posted by Danerator at 7:50 p.m.
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