Thursday, August 28, 2008

Mosquitoes

So we have a problem with mosquitoes. As in, there are a ton of them around here. The first night, we couldn't sleep because of all the mosquitoes. We shut up the windows as tight as possible, but the next night, there were fewer, but still quite a few. There must be some kind of gap in the window somewhere. Anyways, we have gotten quite a bit of advice. The first was to keep a fan blowing the whole night. Theoretically, with the wind blowing, the mosquitoes would be unable to land, and therefore, no bites. We tried it, and it didn't work. Next mosquito mitigation attempt was these plug-in things, which go into the power outlet, and a little insert goes into it which burns all night. Again, did not work. Finally, we decided to buy ourselves a mosquito net. It cost us around $23 Canadian, but after we bought it, there were no more problems with mosquitoes. Nowadays, when we go home, we immediately go into our mosquito tent. We read in there, watch movies, etc. All in relative comfort, and all while laughing smugly at the mosquitoes perched on the outside.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

There has to be some more effective mosquitoe-killing spray or something that you could use...

Christine asks why there are only pictures of Allison. She would like see a few with Calvin in them.

Jones said...

looks like your apartment just got a whole lot smaller? =)

glad to see you're keeping busy tho!

Anonymous said...

It's like camping every night coooool

Anonymous said...

i hear if you leave an ultra-violet light on, and put some duct tape near it, the mosquitos will be drawn to it and then stick to the tape and die.