Dear Nature, What The Hell?!

Smaller & Darker

I'm not sure where the past couple days have gone. I know they involved massive amounts of home invading insects, power outages, gorditas in a Petco parking lot, political corruption, bears, at one point I was in Giants Stadium and I'm pretty sure I was on the phone with the Supreme Court. But after yesterday Laura & I may be solely responsible for the extinction of ladybugs in the northeastern United States.

Prepare yourself for this one...



That's just one vacuum load. We did three more after that.

Could've been my last time in good ol' Giants Stadium on Wednesday. Tearing it down to make way for the new one, which I saw in the shadows but didn't wanna ruin the surprise. It's funny, all these years I've been there tons of times, I'd say upwards of 60, and never seen so much as a blue-42 shotgun-hike, nonetheless a whole football game. Just this...



That's all behind me now and I'd like to move on. Couple more weeks of this season, and on to bigger & brighter. Or maybe smaller & darker. That sounds better to me right now for some reason. Let's go with that: smaller & darker.

Ladybugs Are Back!

And they like this lamp...

And they like my face...

Wrath of the Japanese Beetle

These little fuzzy fellows are actual Japanese Beetles from our front yard. How they got all the way here from Japan I will never know but I know I want them off my plants. They been killing those poor things. A few weeks ago we had beautiful flowers growing and plants sprouting up every which way and now, we have this...




Gruesome.

Old Friends/Friends Of Old

It's early, 5:46. I can't sleep. Alot on my mind. Gotta go to Roxbury today. I'd rather be going with everyone else to the craft show in Lavallette. That was fun last year. Got an interview on Monday. Jonathan resigned from Cadets yesterday. That makes me sad. That makes me curious too. Let's see how it all plays out.

Barb & Bill got in last night. That's awesome. To celebrate we had salmon salad and Barb's cornbread, my favorite, and of course frozen alligators. They're getting better. Then we watched the Mets pummel the Astros 11-3 and looked thru our wedding albums. It was a nice night.



Just before all that Tom & Allison called me. They stopped by for a half hour or so, hung out in the living room, talked about old days, tried to catch up. It has been 6 or 7 years since we've all seen one another, and probably over a decade since we spent any quality time together. We used to be awesome. They both seem to be great; happy and busy. They both have so many friends to visit while they're in town. I can't relate. But it was all too quick, I didn't even have the presence of mind to take a picture of the reunion. Hopefully we'll find time to get together again before Tom flies back to Houston & Allison heads back to NYC on Sunday. Hopefully...

I did take these pictures yesterday tho:



Fancy, huh?