Bed Bugs....

Spent the day, here at home... bookwork... yard work.... errands... yeeesh.... Catching up with everyone, who expects me, this week... It's gonna be a "hurry up and wait" kinda week... yeeesh.... Spent Monday, resting... I couldn't sleep well, in Rochester....{just a few hours a night} Yes...we partied, more than usual... but.... I hate to say it... I think it was a phobia about the 'bed bug' situation... I stripped the bed, at the hotel, every night....flipped the mattress...{I never, ever leave the comforter on the bed, in a hotel, so that was flung off, and left in the corner...yeeesh!}examined the crevices, and joints in the headboard... checked around the plug ins, and switch plates...kept my luggage on a rack, and clothes in bags... have I gone 'round the bend? maybe so..... I'd wake up, feeling things crawling on me... yet... nothing was there.... every day, I hear another story, about the dreaded 'bed bugs'... They are being found in 5 star hotels, and upscale department stores.... yeeeeesh!!!!! I washed everything, when I got home... in Hot, hot water{ over 114 degrees to kill....}....paranoid? Ah... Yeah! You would think, someone who crawls around, in dirty old barns, with coon poop, rat poop, bat poop, spiders, mice, and all sorts of creepy crawlies.... really wouldn't let teeny, tiny little bed bugs, bug her... ahhhh... think again....If they lived in a barn... I'd have no problem... If they are invading my personal, sleeping space.... ah... not so much... {I'm itching all over... just thinking about it....}I visited with Jan, this afternoon, {summer sundays} I think we are on the same page... tho... I don't think she was quite as fanatical as I am... I'm on the edge, I tell ya... These things are the size of a ground black pepper fragment.... they can go 4 months, without feeding on your body... It's horribly expensive to treat your home, and then, it may not work.... They are working on a way to get rid of them...But, like Jan and I said....Whatever they come up with, will probably kill us off too... yeeesh... So... I may resort to sleeping in the FUSO...although, 2 of my friends got bit by a Brown Recluse Spider, while sleeping in a van....Oh Dear... I'll have images on, tomorrow, of some of the treasures I brought back, from Gold Rush... The truck is getting a tune up, and when it's done.... I'm gone.... On the Road again! Have a good evening... Sleep tight... and....well.... I'll see ya tomorrow... Barb C. {My friend Patty just called...{fern hill} and said I'm letting the media 'get to me'.... I'm like Chicken Little... 'The sky is falling!'...O.K....o.k. weeee'll see....{ this is coming from a woman,I saw jump straight up, onto the toilet seat, in her house, because she spotted a little spider....and wouldn't get down, 'til I caught it, and took it, outside...{I wouldn't kill it... she was SURE it would find it's way back!} So, Patty...REALLY!!!!! So...Patty...imagine...just for a moment... these are teeny, tiny SPIDERS....and no way of getting them out of your bed... Now...Sweet Pea.... Sleep Well...oh...I mean...Tight.... and don't let the Spid...oh..I mean Bed Bugs Bite!...}