Bug Killer

When I first built this house, it was clean and neat.  Then time started taking a toll and the spiders moved in - along with little bitty scorpions - snakes - and misc. creatures from the Black Lagoon.  After a year plus a dab, we called this company in Corsicana to spray our house for varmits.   These two "past" middle age brothers show up.   One sprayed the inside of the house carrying a pump-up sprayer.  The other one was outside with a 200 or more foot house attached to a tank on the back of their truck.
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The guy inside is a talker, and I learned some things from him.  The outside guy talked less but still was full of information.  They sprayed in and outside the house plus the newly built outside wall and the dock.  Then came the invoice.  It was over $500.   I can tell you that it does not take many $500 invoices for a feller to start looking for an alternative.  And we did.
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fyi:  you have to be careful what is put on any surface that might bleed off into the lake.  Fish apparently look for poison to swim through, so, when caught, they can poison the whole human race.  You might think of it as a radical Muslim kook who drinks poison in hopes you will want to consume him after death.  What would he care, he'd be in Valhalla mixing it up with the chicks.
[ an aside thought here -- if those good ole boys in Iraq get a hold on this bluggy blug - they might be able to use it to attack another American embassy. ]
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I found this green container at Home Depot that says it is safe for fish.  It squirts out a water hose connection and seems to slow down the spiders somewhat.  I have discovered that Wasp and their cousins like spiders.  They will put a spider inside the egg container...so the little wasp will have breakfast when he matures.  So, where there are spiders, we have the Wasp Clan.  A Hatfield-McCoy type of deal.
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Finally at one of the local farm & ranch stores we bought stuff called Tempo.  I gots da widdle pump spwayer, mix up a couple of gallons of Tempo - I sprayed the outside of the house let's say over a month ago plus some - There still are no spiders hanging around.  Yes, the wasps are still here...hoping and praying for a ittl biti spider to come down the water spout.  Hope is eternal.
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I put a couple of those bug bombs in the attic.  Later I found piles of dead tiny bugs near the bomb.  It makes me think the bombs work.
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Thus endeth a buggy bluggy blug entry.  It is rest time now.
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