A week ago Luke wanted to get from the porch to the garage without going through the house. He said that there were too many flies in the house. I scoffed. "What are you afraid of? There aren't that many flies." How wrong I was.
All the next day we killed one fly after another. Michael stopped counting after a dozen. Amanda even killed two with one blow (although we did not have a belt made with that phrase on it, for fear she would be recruited by passing kings who wanted her to kill a giant). Even the spiders got into the act---there were several flies in webs around the house. Yum!
Some flies even made it into Luna's (the betta fish) tank. I'm not sure whether she ate any of them. It's a good thing we have three flyswatters: the entire family can get into the fly swatting act.
I went from not seeing any flies when Luke asked about them to seeing tens of them the next day. Spontaneous generation, a la Aristotle? Michael says that it only counts as spontaneous generation if an open garage door can be counted as spontaneous.
The flies have calmed down in the past few days---perhaps they are dying out. We'll see if we can keep the garage door closed enough to keep the population down this weekend.
All the next day we killed one fly after another. Michael stopped counting after a dozen. Amanda even killed two with one blow (although we did not have a belt made with that phrase on it, for fear she would be recruited by passing kings who wanted her to kill a giant). Even the spiders got into the act---there were several flies in webs around the house. Yum!
Some flies even made it into Luna's (the betta fish) tank. I'm not sure whether she ate any of them. It's a good thing we have three flyswatters: the entire family can get into the fly swatting act.
I went from not seeing any flies when Luke asked about them to seeing tens of them the next day. Spontaneous generation, a la Aristotle? Michael says that it only counts as spontaneous generation if an open garage door can be counted as spontaneous.
The flies have calmed down in the past few days---perhaps they are dying out. We'll see if we can keep the garage door closed enough to keep the population down this weekend.
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