Time To Bring Out The Big Gun...

 Funny how I don't remember things that happened just last summer. Take, for example, bugs in our backyard. It couldn't be as bad as things are this year. Then I remembered trying to manually turn off our irrigation water after a storm...

The mosquitos...

They attacked, just like they're doing this year.

Yes, because of the wet summer we've had (and I'm SO grateful for the rain...), the mosquitos have been terrible. Things have changed in our backyard this year. Because of the fence, we're able to have the dog outside with us. Because our dog is very intelligent, he guilts us into going outside to play fetch every night and since we enjoy playing fetch as well, we go outside each night.

That hasn't been the case this past week. We step onto the lawn and they swarm, biting pesky mosquitoes attack which sends us and the dogs running.

We bought a product that says it works for twelve weeks. We sprayed and saw an immediate reduction in bugs. That lasted about a week. We got a few storms and, bam--back came the bugs. I spotted a bug zapper at Costco and we decided it was worth the price to try it, to try anything.

The jury's out on the zapper's effectiveness. We know it's working because it traps the bug corpses beneath. But, will it do the trick? We hope so.

Because we didn't get to the garden in several days, our cucumbers exploded. They're supposed to be picked when they're three to four inches long...not three to four inches thick. Of course, in time, the bugs will no longer be a problem. By then, it might be too cold to play outside...

Except the dog. He'll always want to play.