@Pemerson,
Well, it's either 96 F or 91.8 F depending what weather channel you look at, @ 4:24 pm in Abq; the 91.8 is probably specific to our zip code. I just got back from the store, where, yes, I bought cockroach spray, plus groceries.
There are forecasts for two thunder episodes overnight.
Cockroaches: I left my first apartment, a tack-on to a duplex house, because of them - something about it being unfinished under the sink area, a good move because the next apartment was unforgettably good, large, over a spanish house, $105. a month as long as I lived there because they liked me and I paid the rent on time. Never saw another one until a trip to Guatemala (or Mexico?), and there only once, but that was one giant cockroach. Forty years later, they seem to be in the drain system in this neighborhood, and I have a poor connect at my now defunct garbage disposal, which is probably where they come from. I've managed to stay them off for about eighteen months with my concoction of flour, cocoa, and 20 mule team borax, culled from the web.
A couple of weeks ago I saw one and missed catching it. Set another dish of roach concoction out.. (I don't have pets). So maybe that first one is gone, but I didn't find the body. We know, I think, if there is one roach, there are thousands about to advance for the charge. Now I've seen two more in the kitchen, looking for water, and again I missed stamping them (or maybe the same one twice) out. Apparently I pounce less fast than in the past. The difference over the years is that now they unsettle me deeply. My sense of well being plummets.
I remember talking to Lola of a2k about this, and she said something like that's nothing, you should see ours in Texas. More like the big one I saw once before. Now
that would bother me.
