Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for October 23, 2024

And yet you’re buggy

Still too warm here.

Tis the season for box elders and lady bugs.

I think we’ve had our last real warm day in Southern Wisconsin. Still a few bugs out there on Tuesday…

We’re not due for a hard freeze for at least a couple weeks. Mosquitoes everywhere. Thinking of the people here in 1878 praying for a freeze to end the Yellow Fever season, without knowing yet that mosquitoes carried Yellow Fever – they just knew the season ended with the first hard freeze!

A marvelous day for a rain dance. Tomorrow’s forecast? 80° and clear.

Maybe where you live. I killed at least 10 mosquitoes today.

I will admit that’s a reduction, though. Ahhh. Florida’s just about like Eden.

Hilarious?

This is the time of the year when the creepy crawlies come inside to extend the season. I’ve even had a few ant visits, probably from new nests that picked the wrong time to hatch out and start exploring.

Better not move to the kids area then

Regarding Janis’s new “do”. I didn’t start coloring my hair till I turned 65, did it for my birthday. No one noticed, she did a really nice job of blending the gray. So then my husband died and my income was about a third of what it was when he was alive. So I stopped coloring it as a cut and color was about $170, and I figured no one would look at me and believe my hair was still dark brown. I wore it chin length. So two weeks ago I went in for a cut and Monica said “just a trim and shape up?” I said “no, I want it whacked off.” So now I have shorter, (not like I got a crew cut or anything) kind of a shorter wedge cut. I think it makes me look younger because it cut off a lot of the gray! Easier to style, I don’t have to throw my brush across the bathroom anymore! I’m kind of testy in the morning as my husband would have attested to. He liked my hair any way I chose to wear it, short, long, brown, gray, curly, or straight. I only have myself to please. :)

Around here it will soon be “Stinkbugs get in the house” season.

I dig this one the most.

I need it colder, I’ve a wasp nest in the siding when poison doesn’t reach so I need to open up the siding and dig out the wasps. Right now they are still a bit active, even after a frost or two.