Plague!
When my daughter was little, she had a Golden Book Children’s Bible (with illustrations!) that was a read-aloud favorite. She had a favorite chapter too- Exodus! It had vivid pictures of the plagues- like the frogs boiling up out of the river. I recall one night I just couldn’t read that chapter anymore. I’d had it with the plagues!
Today, we’re having one of Biblical plagues here in our house: gnats! Everywhere. They’re reclining on the shower stall. I opened the oven and gnats flew out. I don’t know why pestilence “hath besmpitteth” us today. It must have something to do with the climate and lack of water- there’s certainly more water in the bathroom than there has been outside lately. Mike noted that his workplace is full of flying things lately too. He works about 25 miles away from here. I’d get out the Black Flag and spray away, but it’s to the point we’d need one of those big tarps they throw over houses when they’re exterminating termites. I feel like I’m living in the Outback- raise your arm and shoo them away; about all that’s to be done!
Oh, as long as we’re talking pestilence-concerning the killer Staph germ: I was listening to a call-in show on the radio and this one lady made me listen up. First she’d noticed a bug bite on her leg, then she noticed it looked bad, swollen and turned color. Her husband said, that’s a spider bite maybe a brown recluse. So she went to the doctor for treatment and while there, apparently picked up the MRSA staph germ in the wound. Talk about bad to worse, she had to be hospitalized. Lucky for her the IV antibiotics worked and she didn’t lose the leg! She doesn’t live in a part of the country known for brown recluse spiders, but she’d just had a new sofa delivered, and apparently the spider was in the couch. Note- maybe spray bug spray on boxes and things when they come into the house. Once when I worked at the store, a girl opened up a box of jeans and there was a bunch of white spiders in the box! Creepy hitchhikers! So trust me on this- when you buy an article of clothing from a store, wash it or run it through the dryer before you wear it the first time-you never know!
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