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Monday, April 19, 2010

How to annihilate grill wasps 101

Obviously the House of Nuts loves to make videos.
Embarrassing ones,
silly ones,
music ones,
and just plain ridiculous ones.
For example:
The eradication of grill wasps.
Our house is a prime target for wasps.
There are a lot of cute little nooks and crannies where they can stuff their little bodies and make little hives.  
So by the end of the day
It is no longer the House of Nuts
but in fact, 
the House of Hives.
and we don't like that.
Wasps are mean,
they fly in your face trying to intimidate you,
they show off constantly,
(really, who cares if you can fly?)
and they shove themselves, or parts of themselves, where they don't belong.
By stinging innocent bystanders and living in eaves, gutters, corners and grills.
So what do we nuts do?
Send Deruda and Padre to deal with the beasties.
While we film them.


By the way, thank you Otis for the swell narration and Aliswan for the filming...albeit from a distance.

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

And then there was none.

This weekend we moved the Unkie, Auntie, T-dog, and Widgie out.  
It was a sad, sad, moment but there are always ways to bump up the happiness factor.  
Such as Bug wearing hot pink high heels.
Here is a few stills from the day:
Auntie Karen, in her sweet In-N-Out shirt.
Bug and I
Bug and I after packing, moving, unpacking and moving more stuff.
the Padre vacuuming the dust that was under the TV downstairs.
We had to vacuum because it was nasty thick.
Don't judge us, you would write in the dust to...
although I do believe the writing is still there, in storage, in the basement.
At least we are humorous cleaners.

So there was the move.

IN OTHER NEWS

Sunday was good.  The best part was when the cita burned the last pan of rolls.
Yes those are rolls you dirty reader, get your mind out of the toilet. :)
Also you will notice, or you may not, that I changed the blog template.
It used to look like this:
Now it looks...well like it does now.
Change is good.
In fact, almost everyone has recently (blogger and life wise)
Stephie did, as did Aliswan.
Still working out the kinks.

So there you go.
Lots of change afoot.
Aliswan graduates next week,
then leaves for Syria the week after, 
and starts grad school in August.
the little juan comes home from his mission in August,
after which he will promptly head back to university.
Stephie graduates from high school at the end of May,
and starts university with Jon, in August.
Deruda is going to his first prom in the next little bit,
and will be starting his junior year of high school in the fall.
Bug also starts high school in August.
Basically everyone is growing up, moving on, and going crazy.
Because that is what we do.

We are 'the nuts' in the House of Nuts after all.