“He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and fitted her as if it had been made of wax.”
Today is a perfectly lovely day. The sun is bright, the air is clear and it’s only 69˚. The forecasted high for today is 71˚. The forecasted low is 59˚, yup, fifty nine degrees. I have to go out because I can’t waste this weather which will stay the same the whole long weekend. Blissful is my mood of the moment.
I am the victim of a plague, not one of the Biblical plagues of note but my own plague, a fly plague. Yesterday I had to go out for the first time since Friday. When I opened the car door, flies attacked me. Well, not so much attacked me but more like ran into me as I was just standing in the way of their freedom. I didn’t go into the car. There were too many of them. I did manage to get all the windows opened. The flies were small, maybe baby flies. my first baby flies. I waited outside the car and watched the swarm leave. The sky darkened, and the only sound was the fluttering of wings. Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating a bit here, but I’m telling you it took a while before all of the flies left for sunnier climes. Flies are dumb bugs. A lot of them crawled under the opened window so I had to shoo them out. I figured they just had to come from the trunk, from where the trash bags were. Today I will open the trunk and duck.
Nala continues her felonious ways, and I don’t know where she is finding the paper to shred. The only place I can think of is the recycle bin of papers and magazines. Nala has also become a naturalist. Yesterday she brought in a small branch filled with dead leaves. They ended up on the floor by the door and Nala, with some help from Henry, the abetter, chewed away the branch. When I was on the deck earlier, I saw a dog food can in the yard. I didn’t see any legs. It didn’t walk there.
When I walk to the kitchen, tumbleweeds fly in front of me. They rise slightly in the air then fall back down to the floor. They are never completely eliminated. I’d need bald dogs before that happened.
My slipper is still missing. This morning I went to get my papers. I was barefooted. I ended up having to step on pathway stones to get the papers. They hurt. I should have worn shoes. I really miss my slipper.
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September 3, 2021 at 2:05 pm
Hi Kat,
Well the long holiday weekend is almost upon us. I have to come up with things to do to get out of the house for three instead of two days. Unfortunately, here the temperature will be closer to the century mark and when factoring the humidity it will feel like well over 100°. The pool guy will clean the filter sometime this afternoon so we can swim tomorrow.
You should write a book and call it, “My Kleptomaniac Dog”. I’ll bet Nala will dig your slipper up in the backyard next spring and bring it inside just to surprise you. 🙂 Dogs don’t have any mean bones, they just think burying your slipper until spring would be a fun game. 🙂
I haven’t figured out the evolutionary purpose of flies. They are one of nature’s more annoying creatures. I understand your requirement to store garbage in the trunk of your car, but that will attract flies. Have you considered buying a large plastic garbage can to store your garbage in near the house rather than in the trunk of the car. Then, on land fill days you transfer the garbage bags to the trunk for the journey to their final resting place. You could store the paper recycling in the trunk as long as you didn’t use the paper to wrap fish. 🙂
September 3, 2021 at 8:04 pm
Hi Bob,
When I went out, I was amazed at the traffic around locally already. I guess people are trying to beat the traffic to get down here. The weekend is supposed to be lovely.
I feel bad for anyone working outside in the heat and humidity.
Nala loves to tear paper of any sort into shreds. When I went on the deck, I found a sodden paperback book and several of its pages. The book was thick. It surprised me she’d steal that. I saw a bit more in the yard, but I need shoes to hunt down Nala’s treasures.
I do have a couple of plastic barrels. It is just easier to move the bags into the car rather than to the barrel then the car.
I also couldn’t figure out what benefit we get from flies so I went hunting:
“Pollinating plants, cleaning up carcasses, swabbing drains — flies are part of every strand of the web of life. For each person on earth, there are 17 million flies. They pollinate plants, consume decomposing bodies, eat the sludge in your drainpipes, damage crops, spread disease, kill spiders, hunt dragonflies.”
Who knew?
September 3, 2021 at 8:24 pm
I didn’t get any of that from the movie, “Ants”. 🙂
September 3, 2021 at 9:09 pm
I didn’t know any of that.
September 3, 2021 at 5:00 pm
Maybe you can tell us about a beautiful new slipper tree in your garden next summer?
Nice weather here for a change, I’m just planning the next bike day trip. Nothing special, most trains don’t run anyway. It’s just a few years ago and we nearly missed the creative chaos that train union strikes offer…
September 3, 2021 at 8:10 pm
Birgit,
When I read your first sentence, The Little Shop of Horrors jumped into my head. When Audrey blossomed, all the faces of her victims were the middle of the flowers. That would give the slipper tree a bit of context.
You would love today’s weather and the prediction through Monday. Bike weather for sure. No trains here on the cape so it’s a bus off cape and even down cape.
September 4, 2021 at 2:51 am
We’ve had our first frost now so i decided to wear a fleece jacket on our morning walk. It was really nice and very much fly free 🙂 🙂 Sunny once again so I’ll enjoy it as much as I can. They can’t really decide what kind of weather we’ll get tomorrow though, it changes quite a lot with each update they make 🙂 🙂
Sorry no baby flies 🙂 Once they hatch they don’t grow any more. but I think You’re right about the trunk so duck and cover when You open it 🙂 🙂
Have a great day!
Christer.
September 4, 2021 at 8:17 pm
Hi Christer,
I would hate a frost this early. We usually get our first in November and often even later. I’m glad the effect of the frost is the end of the flies if even for the meantime. Now you and the dogs will enjoy the walk even more. We are in the midst of great weather which will continue for a couple of days more.
Nothing flew out when I opened the trunk. They were all in the car. Considering I don’t put trash in the car itself I have no idea how they got there. They were the smallest flies I have ever seen.
Enjoy your Sunday!