3/Aug/19 here I am, hiding from the heat

Good morning Cape Breton.

Maximus Handsomius here from my forever home.

This part of the floor of the house, doesn't have a lot of insulation under the floor.  When it gets cold outside, this part of the floor gets cold the quickest.  It is so nice on my belly.

Yesterday the Big Guy was asking his middle brother, my non-furry brother, Marc, what the food was like where he is at in Egypt.  Instead of saying what he gets to eat, he just said, the food was good.  Not much of a conversationalist.

The Big Guy did this mosquito trap yesterday using a pop bottle.  He isn't sure how many mosquitoes he is going to trap, but he tried it anyways.  He got an empty pop bottle from work.  He cut the top 1/3 of the bottle off.  He put some warm water in the bottom 2/3.  Then added some sugar and added some yeast.  Then he inverted the top half (without the cap on) and put some packing tape to hold it in place.

Mosquitoes are attracted to CO2, which humans and doggies exhale.  Since a by product of yeast, water and sugar is also CO2 and alcohol, it should attract the mosquitoes.  He will check his "trap" later on to see if he got any mosquitoes.  He has also left the bottle on the "sunny" side of the deck.  So later on, any mosquitoes are going to be baked.

Now, they also got the Mosquito Vacuum.  Although that's not the proper name for it.  But that is what it does.  So a combination of the mosquito trap and the mosquito vacuum, they should be knocking down some of the mosquito population.

Perhaps if the Big Guy made a bat house and nailed it to his garage.  Oh the side of the house.  Bats apparently eat a lot of mosquitoes.

Then there is the wasps.  The Big Guy has a trap set out for them as well.  It must be working as there isn't a lot of wasps that are around any longer.  He must check the trap to see if it worked.  Empty it and set it again.

Wasps and mosquitoes.  What good are they?  What purpose do they serve?  They are like the asshole insects of the world.  Well, at least in Canada they are.

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Bye bye fur now