Today’s post will be about bananas and locusts and phoenixes and other nonrelated items. This is not a post for you, Hannah because you will never eat another piece of fruit after you read this. You are to young to give up fruit honey.
Mom and I stopped at a grocery store before going into Platte River Campground. We picked up the usual supplies and some bananas. We put up the groceries and laid the bananas on the countertop. They were a little green and we couldn’t eat them yet. Thank god for small miracles. The next day, like a Phoenix rising out of the ashes a small grey cloud appeared above the bananas. It was the plague of the locusts only it was small flies. Obviously eggs must have hatched and we were infested! I have never seen anything like this and let me tell you I hope I never will again. We have not been able to get rid of them. I have removed all food and water supplies for the little beasts and we have been killing them like mad. There are so many of them we honestly don’t know what to do except move out of our little house and bug bomb it. We won’t go to that extreme… yet. If anyone has any ideas on how to kill them I would love to hear it.
We are in Manistee! There were a lot of reasons to be in Manistee and unfortunately for us none of them panned out. The first and the most important is getting the van maintained. 2nd reason is to find a place to get my haircut. I am going super short and spiky. 3rd reason is CASINO!!!! The RV park we are staying is reasonably priced with cable and internet.
Today I found out the Chevy dealership cannot take a vehicle of my size and height and weight and everybody is to busy to cut hair. We are going to the casino this afternoon and tomorrow we will explore the town.
I have shifted everything over to Huntington Indiana – haircut, maintenance, and mail. Now I just need to find a place to stay in or around Huntington next week. I have always wanted to go to Huntington because a lot of my ancestors lived there. The Binkley, Hamrick, and Kitt families. I will be spending some time in the library and the cemetery.
When we pulled into the RV park we counted 4 Roadtreks. This morning a very nice couple stopped by and asked a lot of questions about our little house and they are seriously considering trading their Class C in for a wide body Roadrek and hitting the road full-time. Like a lot of people we have met, they don’t want to tow a vehicle and want the freedom a van will give them. All I have to say is “Go For It.” Life is to short.
4 comments:
omg that is disgusting. we had a similar thing happen but with a different kind of fruit. the flies got so fat in about 2 days that they couldn't fly anymore. I'm guessing this based on the fact that we found their bloated bodies everywhere.
it was awful though because they would try to fly into our eyes at random moments. I think it was a game.
Thats free protein!
Robert
With some bugs, pouring beer in a bowl attracts them and they drown. I don't know if it will work with your flies, but it might be worth a try. The worst that can happen is you'll have drunk, happy flies!
"Time flies like and arrow. Fruit flies like a banana" (Groucho Marx)
Put out a small glass of wine. I think they will jump in!
Or just use the fly-spray.
Oh just wanted to say I LOVED the 'Church of the Banana'!
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