"It's dead, Jim, and it HATCHED!!"

[wraithfodder]

You know, you think just cuz the body is now a corpse and the smell has gone away, that it's all over with. Out of sight, out of mind. However, alas, whatever it was that had the poor taste to croak in the basement ceiling, leaving a foul stench that fortunately a bag of volcanic rocks and a citus scented candle was able to handle, has now given us its departing gifts.

Flies. B52 bomber size flies. ACK! I should have known! I watch CSI! Botflies or worse! Anyway, it started the other day, this thing ZOOMED past my face and I went, what the? Man, they're getting big, until the next day when I spied a black lump crawling across a face on TV and realized, crap, where are these flies coming from?

Egads, the body. Not a mouse (even though they can create quite a stench). It was a rodent - we figure (a) chipmunk, or (b) (shudder) squirrel. But it's an ex-whatever so that's good. Alas, it got in a part of the ceiling that is impossible to get to without creating some major work ($$$). Plus who needs Hanta virus? So, unlike the mouse that had the indign.ity to crawl around the corner before we could retrieve it with wires and broomsticks, this poor sucker is just gonna be a dessicated pile of bones in time

I vacuumed up about a dozen flies. Not knowing if the flies were of the hardy mutant variety that can survive being vacuumed, I taped the vacuum nozzle shut. Just in case. Can't be too paranoid with B52 bomber flies.

I just don't want any of 'em landing on the TV screen during the Stargates tonight or else, I get out the brick from Universal Studio (foam) and toss it!

Comments

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

That last part about the vaccumm made me think of "Swarm" where the vaccumed the queen bee and she still was alive in the handvac.

Flies are annoying. Especially when you can't figure out where they come from.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Eeeu, things alive in the vacuum cleaner. Shudder.

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Although I think they only did that so if things went well they could make a sequel. I'm still hopeing to get it on DVD.

Bugs don't bother me till they get into my space. Then I get a little freaked out. especially bees and spiders.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

WEll, they're all gone. Shoved the last two out the window to go find some roadkill. Think they were blowflies, but heck, big flies!

[ladybeth.livejournal.com]

I think I can top that. My dad found Maggots in the truck he had borrowed from a friend. The Friend's kids liked to stuff thier french fries under the seat. Where I had been sitting previous to my dad had found them.

*shudders*