Wedding Annoucement!

Our wedding announcement was in the local paper in Dallas late last week!

Vegas Traps

So last weekend Andrew made the Vegas Roach Traps. At first we were a little disappointed because we didn't seem to be catching any. They also seemed to tip over remarkably often. Then yesterday Andrew found three of them caught in one trap! He saved them for me to see his successes but i got home late last night and by this morning the trap was tipped over. So now we think we have been catching more then we thought, but must have an animal that comes by at night at eats the roaches out of the traps- probably thinking we are the best thing ever for catching his dinner for him! Either way, they haven't been spotted in the house in a long time, which is good news to me!

Creepy Crawlies

Over the past month we have learned that if you move into a house where two guys have lived for two years with two dogs, it’s going to be a while before you can comfortably call it “clean.” Despite several broom and swifter sweeps, we kept finding dog hair for the first two weeks or so. When we moved in we also dealt with a brief ant invasion. They were tiny little things, and easily thwarted. Every time we put an ant trap somewhere they would move to the next stop- from our kitchen sink to our bathroom cabinet and on. We just kept making life uncomfortable for them and they gave up in about a week.

About the time we finally got the last of the dog hair our latest problem reared its ugly head. Roaches. We found the first one the Sunday evening we had our friend E.Ray over for dinner to thank him for helping us move. It was the first roach I’ve seen since I left Manhattan and it was a doozy- at least an inch and a half long. At the time, we told ourselves that it must have come in on a plant we had just brought in from the outdoors. Andrew heroically killed it and thankfully E.Ray did not seem concerned about my food being cooked in the same house as a roach. I was a little upset, however- all our food is sealed and we maintain good kitchen hygiene, so we shouldn’t have this problem! Gross!

The next morning I woke up at 5 am to catch my flight to LA. I turned on the bathroom light to take a shower and there was another one! I went to wake up Andrew (one of the benefits of living with a guy!) and he killed it for me and then stumbled back to bed. I left for LA, and over the week Andrew found one monster roach about every two days. Through Wikipedia we learned that roaches like damp areas and only need a few crumbs a week to survive. We are highly suspicious that the air conditioning system is to blame- it runs under the house and sends air in through floor vents. Water condenses on it and so it seems it would make the perfect little roach highway. Andrew spent several hours plugging holes in the house so that if they do make it in, they are no nooks and crannies to hide in. I bought roach traps and we thought we had fixed the problem- there had been no roach sightings in several days. Alas, this weekend we started noticing baby roaches. Andrew is continuing to kill them valiantly and this weekend I am going to make some “vegas roach traps.”

Soon, and the sooner the better, we will be 100% roach free.