Sunday, October 5, 2008

Bugs!


The house I am currently working at is in Fruit Heights, right up there on the mountain side, not a huge house but nice... lots of critters and birds and BUGS. My task has been to create order in a large unfinished basement, used as an office, play place and "storage area" if you call /stop and toss/ storage then that is what it WAS. What began as a 2 week job has turned in to 4 and if these folks have their way I may never leave. The funny thing about people who live in chaos is that they usually don't prefer it that way so when they see order they request more and I am pretty happy to oblidge so long as they are happy to pay for it! Anyways, there are 5 windows in this basement with those in the ground window wells (the kind you can access and SEE from the basement), they had been used as a recycling receptacle for soda cans... ick. The man I am working for asked if I would "help him" clean them out, "OF COURSE" I say , they distract from the now beautifully organized basement. These wells are filled with garbage, leaves and spiderwebs... so armed with the shop-vac, gloves, long sleeves, a car ice scraper and a broom I remove the debris, vaccum the webs... spiders, bugs, and god knows what else. What I have realized about this new line of work is that it is going to be filled with BUGS... I found 3 black widows, 2 hobo spiders and this which i now know as a Jerusalem Cricket (and i had to email an entemologist to find that out.) End Note: I really dont like BUGS!!

4 comments:

Mrs. Poff said...

I get the wee bee gee bees just thinking about it!

The Johnson's said...

Yuck, i'm sure everything looks great when your done, but don't you see some really, um.... interesting things?

Heidi said...

Egads, what a horror! I think I might have to hire you to do my window wells, that is the worst job ever!

Laura said...

I'd quit!! that's very disgusting... You are becoming a much braver woman than I!!