We finally got some screens up. Mike did a good job getting the one in the doorway up but unfortunately it was too short. I figured, something is better than nothing so we didn't bother trying to look for a longer one. It has these really neat magnetic tabs that help pull the pieces back together after you walk through it, so I am pretty happy. I might just take some extra material from the one in the kitchen window to cover the bottom because I remember being at my friend Cheri's house in high school and she left her back sliding glass door open and we watched about 15 Daddy long-leg spiders come running into her room from outside, one after the other before we got a chance to run over and shut the door. It really creeped me out and we all know how much I hate spiders.
We also got one up in the kitchen so I am hoping maybe my next batch of herbs will fare better than the last, unless I bring home caterpillars eggs on them again. Gross!! We had to leave extra material in the bottom of the window pane to make room for the ledge in the window (for rain maybe?). I don't care how silly any of this looks, I am just happy to not have to my kitchen full of mosquitoes and flies. Now I just have to put one up in Jack's room, and then get back to the store to buy 2 new ones for the doors in ours and Ava's bedroom. Of course the heat wave seems to have passed, it has been raining and pretty cool lately, only about 65-70, but it still is nice to keep the windows open for some fresh air.
so glad that you have screens now. how can you live without opening the windows for fresh air? never could figure out why there were no screens in ireland.....figured that there were no flies or mosquitos there.....bruce did not realize you had no screens, so maybe the caterpillars came in thru the open window mom
ReplyDeleteps: don't know how to comment as mom, as i don't have a gmail account....col doesn't know either....i will call chris...