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The title for this post comes from a piece of advice from a brother here. He and his wife are need-greaters themselves, formerly in sign language and now serving in English.
Let’s talk about bugs! I’m sorry that this section of this post won’t have any pictures. This is a good thing. Not that you wouldn’t want to see pictures of bugs but I don’t have any! That’s the good part. We are primarily bothered by flies, fruit flies and mosquitoes. Thankfully, I haven’t had any other issues with any other bugs. Yay!
So what this means for your lovely correspondent down here in the tropics is that she starts her day with a shower and a spray - homemade mosquito spray (thank you Alicia!) works the best! I make it stretch by adding other bug sprays that I buy in the shops here. They work semi-OK. Then I work or go out in service. If I’m home around noon, then I shower and spray again! The mid-day shower is the best because it’s the hottest. That’s right folks - no hot water heaters here! This means that every shower is a cold one and you can also wash all the clothes you want....as long as it’s a cold water cycle! Just so you don’t get confused by that last statement - we do have a washing machine; I’m not hand-washing our laundry in the shower!
In the evening, you guessed it! - time for one last shower and spray. The showers are to help keep cool. If someone sweats a lot, then showers are good for that too. Thankfully we aren’t big sweaters! The bug spray tends to only last for about 3-4 hours at a time, so in the evenings, when the mosquitoes are the busiest, then I try to be more vigilant with keeping the bug spray applied. We also have an essential oil, Purification, so that we can apply that too to any bites. Then off to bed in our lovely mosquito net covered bed. I would prefer we also had one of these strung up over the couch! We have a 2 bedroom apartment and while we did bring our own mosquito net, the landlady also supplied 2 nets, one for each bedroom. One has an opening and the other does not. With the one with an opening, you get in the bed like you get into a tent. Then once you’re both in, you overlap the netting and tuck it in under the mattress. This seems like it’s easier and would be preferred. However, we like the no opening one better. This one has an elastic band all the way around the bottom (not necessary but it does help with the integrity of the net) and you untuck it from the mattress, crawl in and then tuck it back in. Bonus to this net is that you can each get in bed from your own side and also get out without bothering the other person.
Next we can talk about the flies and by extension the geckos and then gecko poop! Who doesn’t like to talk about gecko poop?! So the flies love it when I cook. So do the geckos. If I have cooked something, then the flies are attracted. Once I leave the kitchen, then the geckos come down and eat the flies! Yay! The only major con to being a gecko owner is that geckos poop! And it looks like little mice poops! Not good. Also since the geckos are mainly on the walls, you can see little droppings on vertical surfaces.... So now I wipe countertops AND walls!
Again no pictures for this part... sorry. But Steve, Barry, Gary, Sasquatch, Barry B Jr., and the rest send their love ❤️ 🦎
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