Old Folks’ Home Bedbugs Again

Old topics are a bit boring, but bedbugs are a current event in the apartment building underfoot.  A little more discussion might be of value to someone.  The decorations around the place are still those meant for July 4th — aka U. S. A. Independence Day — and time-wise “old stuff.”  Summer is at hand in these Northlands, and that’s not new, either.

The new “plague” of recent years (bedbugs) can be found most anywhere including such places as libraries and public transit.  Even alert and able-bodied people have trouble dealing with them for reasons like they’re hidden and tend to operate when people aren’t looking, like while asleep at night.  They’re in unusual places, like equipment.

Everything created has some value, but what the value of bedbugs is hasn’t been noted by this desk, which is manned by someone who once fished one out of an ear.  The last report was they were found in the laundry room, which means they would be in any apartment in the place and hanging on an unknown person who might be anywhere around.

The creatures are especially bad when it comes to children and less able-bodied folks, like the elderly.  Kids aren’t particularly knowledgeable, and old people have problems like they can’t see well or at least at first think bites are some kind of a medical concern.  Professional extermination is generally expensive, more than some can afford.

Some concerns never go away.  😦

 

 

 

House Plants

House plants have an assortment of values.  First and foremost to an extent they liven up a place.  They are, after all, living things even if they don’t do much moving around, and life does relate in a special way to other life.  Most (if not all) give off oxygen, a something needed by both humans and other animals, and can be lovely looking things.

Taking care of house plants is not as rigid as taking care of animals or humans.  While a little plant food doesn’t hurt now and then, there’s usually no need for anything like a daily feeding (or even watering).  Lifting them around for something like a re-potting is sometimes a bit heavy, but that’s not an every day (or immediate need) activity.

Some people go out and buy them, picking and choosing what they want around.  Some people get them as gifts, which is the case in the nest underfoot.  In the last ten years a good two dozen have been hauled into the place mostly by certain people.  Well, if here, there are attempts to at least water them and give them some light as possible.

There isn’t much light in the place and a number of the plants received have died.  And, in an attempt to save some, a few have been given away.  Quite a number, however, do sit around the place (generally near each other) and do seem to generate “a presence.”  They can be a nice idea for people who live alone and can’t take on an animal.

It doesn’t always take much to make someone happier.  🙂