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2.21.2008

The Fruit fly Era


How to Catch Fruit flies.
*Drink a bottle of beer.
*Eat almost an entire banana
(Leave about one inch uneaten)
*Stuff part of the banana inside the empty beer bottle.
*Tape a funnel onto the mouth of the bottle.
*See if you can catch fruit flies faster than they can multiply (you can't.)


(My SIL and FIL with our fruit fly trap)

Fruit flies multiply faster than you can catch them.
Due to my complacent nature
(after all there are worse things...)
I just learned to live with them...nonchalantly picking them out during the occasional kamikaze landing onto my food. Anyhow.
I have been doing major housecleaning.
Scrubbing, wiping, dusting, organizing, throwing, laundering, folding and vacuuming
(...the vacuum exhaust still smells like Junior).
In the process of my early spring cleaning, I came across an almost indistinguishable bag of badly decomposed potatoes safely tucked under other cooking supplies.
The lair of the offending insects.

Dear Friends and Family that have visited the Exskindiver from
August 2007-February 2008,
I would like to announce the end of an era.
The fruit flies that have flitted in and out of the take-out meals you've enjoyed while in our home are finally gone.
I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.