Missing mosquito...

I think I made it at least fairly clear in my last post, that I really am not overly fond of mosquitos - over the past few weeks I've been bitten up pretty badly, I suspect due to the drainage ditch that backs up to our backyard that always seems to have at least some type of water in it, making it an ideal mosquito breeding area.

Anyway the night before last, I was out in the garage with my husband & son, exercising (contrary to popular belief I actually do exercise) on the weight machine that we bought recently and got bit by mosquitos about 3-4 times. As I ran inside to grab the "Off" spray, a huge mosquito somehow followed me inside. I opened up the door hoping it would fly out, but instead it lingered up near the ceiling in our basement. I was going to get my husband to come inside & kill it, but I ended up back outside exercising & forgot about it - that is until yesterday morning.

As my daughter was getting ready for work yesterday I heard a very shrill scream emitting from her bathroom (her bathroom is in the basement right inside the door leading out of the garage into the house). I ran downstairs to see what was wrong (thinking surely she was screaming because she didn't have any clean towels in her bathroom) and saw her pointing towards the bathroom sink with a look of absoulte horror on her face. I looked in the sink, andt saw that the huge mosquito that had followed me inside the night before was laying in the sink, face up on his back - completely motionless. I told her not to worry about it, the mosquito was dead & I'd clean it up when I got back from dropping her off at work.

After returning from dropping her off at work, I was on my way up the stairs from the basement and thought "Oh crap, I probably ought to clean that mosquito up..." As I went to turn around something caught my attention - I looked down and there at the side of the stairway on one of the steps was a huge mosquito on its back, looking more dead than the one in the bathroom sink. I swatted at it with my sandal, until it stopped moving & ran upstairs to get a few paper towels to pick both that mosquito up and the one in the bathroom sink.

When I came back downstairs with paper towels - both mosquitos were missing. Great - that means either 1 of 2 things - either one of my animals got them, or they had been faking death & were hiding out somewhere and when I least expected it - they would launch into attack mode on me. Now I'm wondering if the one on the stairs was really a 2nd mosquito - maybe the 1st one had somehow made it out of the bathroom sink & crawled or flew up onto the stairway only to meet it's fate at the hands of one of my animals. Oh well, I guess I'll never know - but at least I made it through 1 day without getting bit up!

On another note...

Today is "Take Your Houseplant For A Walk Day"...not sure if that means that you should take your houseplant(s) for a walk outside or inside or where exactly you should be walking them - as their doesn't seem to be much specifics available regarding this "holiday". Regardless, I decided to honor the holiday today by moving one of my houseplants from the sun room to the kitchen - I guess that counts as my contribution for the day.