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stormdogWe have confirmed, via a photo sent to the exterminator, that a bug we found on the couch is a Bed Bug. There have been reports of them on mass transit here and there, and changing weather has made things better for them. (Climate change? What climate change?) They are pernicious little things, as I've seen second-hand via the travails of a couple friends who've dealt with them.
I kept hoping it wasn't what Danae and I thought it was. I couldn't find evidence of any more anywhere. But Danae has been getting nibbled (though I haven't) and we don't want to take any chances.
We have an exterminator coming today for the first treatment, but it takes two to be rid of them and that will be in a couple weeks. In the meantime, I'm going to not visit anybody nor have people over to the house to avoid spreading the nasty little things.
My work clothes are clean, and will get washed, dryed on high, and put in a sealed bag until use, which will keep bugs from hitchhiking to work with me. All our bedroom and living room furniture is now squished into the middle of the room, a foot from the wall, to make room for treatment. I took the cover plates for our wall outlets off for the pest people to get to. All of our unnecessary clothing is in sealed bags, to be individually and gradually run through the dryer or dry-cleaned as appropriate before being hung up or taken out again.
Fun times. At least the bedroom is as clean and uncluttered as it's been in a long time.
Maybe in a few weeks we'll try and start board gaming on Sundays again, and have some cake for people in a joint puppy-cabbit belated birthday recelebration!
I kept hoping it wasn't what Danae and I thought it was. I couldn't find evidence of any more anywhere. But Danae has been getting nibbled (though I haven't) and we don't want to take any chances.
We have an exterminator coming today for the first treatment, but it takes two to be rid of them and that will be in a couple weeks. In the meantime, I'm going to not visit anybody nor have people over to the house to avoid spreading the nasty little things.
My work clothes are clean, and will get washed, dryed on high, and put in a sealed bag until use, which will keep bugs from hitchhiking to work with me. All our bedroom and living room furniture is now squished into the middle of the room, a foot from the wall, to make room for treatment. I took the cover plates for our wall outlets off for the pest people to get to. All of our unnecessary clothing is in sealed bags, to be individually and gradually run through the dryer or dry-cleaned as appropriate before being hung up or taken out again.
Fun times. At least the bedroom is as clean and uncluttered as it's been in a long time.
Maybe in a few weeks we'll try and start board gaming on Sundays again, and have some cake for people in a joint puppy-cabbit belated birthday recelebration!
