FLY SEASON - AAAAAAHHHHHHH!

These are the biggest, baddest, ugliest flies you'll ever encounter. They have big, red googly eyes and sit on this tree right outside my kitchen window. It is ALMOST making me regret planting a tree outside my window. Almost. I love to look at something besides concrete - call me crazy.

Fly season will end in a few weeks as the weather warms up. We have had our space-heaters on the last few weeks as our house gets so cold. Thankfully Layla has learned how to keep a blanket on in the middle of the night. But I still wake up and think "Ah! better go see if Layla is freezing!"

The new students arriving to start the new term at the language school so we are having all sorts of those interesting discussions where you see the place through new eyes again. Someone asked us yesterday, "Is there a bunch of dead meat around here? Why are there so many flies?" Well, yes, there is dead meat around as the trash "can" (read: pile) is just over our wall. But it is just fly season and there is nothing to do besides swat them or live with them or both depending on how much energy you have at the time. They are surprisingly slow so it is rather satisfying to use your AMERICAN-MADE fly swatter. If you buy a local-made fly swatter, every time to swat, a little bit of the fly swatter chips off so when you are done you have a bunch of big black dead flies and small plastic chips....and a smaller fly swatter.