― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:31 (eighteen years ago) link
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― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― stet (stet), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:35 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.crystalclearwindows.com/windowscreens/window%20screen1.jpg
From the inside you can see through them perfectly -- some kinds of screen are silvery metallic (woven of fine wire) and some are woven of nylon thread or something and look vaguely black, but at most they cause a slight blurring or color shift to your outside view. The weave is fine enough that from more than a few feet back, you don't even notice.
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:36 (eighteen years ago) link
Seriously? I am envious. Hotter-than-normal winter + mysterious hole somewhere in my house = house is being taken over by very large beetles. :(
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Same here. :-((((
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― emsk ( emsk), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
Seattle is similar in that there just aren't that many flying bugs about normally. The seabreezes or something blows them all inland.
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
we've been candle-burning some eucalyptus but your solution sounds a bit more economical thanks.
Laurel, in London at least bugs are really not a problem 3/4 of the year unless you live in a festering hellish recess (which many do actually given London rent rates, but still).
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Ergo, not very awesome.
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
Bummer, that happened to me last summer (I was working at Target, too). :/ Are they at least trying to fix it?
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 13:59 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks julia! that was the kind of info I was looking for yesterday.
― Ms. Misery TX (MissMiseryTX), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Yeah. I'm sure it will be all set once 4:45 rolls around.
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:05 (eighteen years ago) link
We have a mild, wet climate with only a couple of months for the bugs to enjoy themselves, and sometimes it does get a nuisance - for example, there is one day every July when the flying ants swarm and that can be quite unpleasant! But we don't have many big bugs beyond moths, we don't have a lot of mosquitoes - insects in general are vastly less common over here, that's all there really is to it.
Once when I was in Italy, reading in bed with the ceiling light on, I put the book down, looked up and the ceiling was BLACK with mosquitoes. Holy fuck.
― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:10 (eighteen years ago) link
In what parallel universe?
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
Meanwhile, I am overjoyed that it is only 82F today. Last night we had to call off band practice after an hour and a half, because we practice in a house where all the windows are boarded up so that noise doesn't escape. It was pretty miserable, obv.
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
The radio this morning was full of "YOU'RE GONNA BURN, BITCHES! HOTTEST DAY EVAH!" but all I can see out the window is clouds.
Onimo, it may be cloudy, but it is also warm and sticky and you can get burned through clouds (as I found out on Sunday).
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
Scotland has a bad midge problem. On the face of it not as bad as mozzies, but in reality much worse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midge_%28insect%29
Up until now this summer I've been moaning about the aircon at work, because if you dress for the tube and outside then you freeze all day in the office - I've got a pair of tights in my drawer to put on when I get in, but I will complain no more, it's heaven...
― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 14:25 (eighteen years ago) link
I have been sitting in 33 degree heat all day. Hopefully, it'll rain soon.
― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 15:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mädchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Earwig oh! (Mark C), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
I lived in Pisa just by the river and there were mosquitoes everywhere nearly all year round. They were absolute bastards - really cunning. They would wait until you turned around and then try to silently float down onto you, but if you saw them hovered back up out of reach. After a while I started to develop a sixth sense: constantly looking for tiny shifting shadows out of the corner of my eye (the downside of this is that when I got back to England I looked like a jumpy paranoid madman living in fear of shadow monsters). I had to use some dodgy chemical electric-vapour thing called 'Vape' every night, but it wasn't much use in the summer because it was still 25C at night and really humid so you had to leave the windows open.
― Teh littlest HoBBo (the pirate king), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
Agreed, but it still didn't live up to the pre-burn hype. It was a hot day but nothing like the BARBECUE IN HELL we were promised.
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― Konal Doddz (blueski), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 16:58 (eighteen years ago) link