August 29th, 2005
Bug Update
Okay, ew. I was going to tell you how, the morning after, I found what I was pretty sure was the corpse of the spawn that freaked me out the other night, and how I bestowed many kisses on my sweet bug-death-dealing kitten’s head in gratitude–but now they don’t even wait for nighttime to come out. Yesterday I looked down and one was trundling towards me from behind the cat bowls. It wasn’t even dusk. Luckily the girlfriend was here and we quickly made a bargain, her end of which involved smashing the offending critter with my Teva sandal and throwing it over the fence into the neighbor’s yard. I should note that my other, useless cat was standing right there and didn’t even glance at the creepy-crawly, let alone try to rescue me. Honestly, sometimes I’m not sure why I feed her.
Just in case you don’t believe me about the bigness and scariness and ugliness of my apparent roomies, I’ve shamelessly stolen this photo from Twisty, since she has a digital camera (which she’s not afraid to use), and I don’t. Not that I could stand still in the presence of one of these beasts, alive or dead, long enough to press a shutter, let alone arrange its carcass so neatly along a ruler! But this is exactly what the creatures look like. And Twisty’s hilarious, ever so much cleverer than me, and her blog rocks so you should all go read it while I recover from bug trauma.
