Well I'm sure you're wondering what in the world that title means right!? Well today was SUPPOSED to be 40 minutes of mild/moderate cross training. Something that really did not work the legs much. I had planned to do some body weight exercises that worked mainly my arms and abs. But instead here's what happened...
So it began last night... I was brushing my teeth in the downstairs bathroom and went to pick up a dirty shirt that was laying on the floor. Not filthy mind you, just worn 4-5 hours. When I picked it up I saw all of these little black things fall on the ground. As I looked closer many of them were CRAWLING!! "What the heck!?!?" I hate bugs just for the record. But I stuck it out. So I took the shirt outside, shook it out, and threw it in the washer. As I went back to take a closer look, I noticed some of the bugs around the pantry door. We have 2 different places that we store food. There are large utility shelves in the laundry room where we store the things we use every day. Then there is a smaller, closet-sized pantry right next to the garage door. This smaller pantry is where I have always stored all the gluten-free stuff. Cookie mixes, baking flour, pasta, hot cereal mixes, pancake mix...you name it--it's in here! Well gluten free stuff is expensive ya know? So I usually buy a lot of something if I find it on sale.
Back to the bugs...
So I start looking at these bugs and recognized them to be flour bugs. I'm not sure what their real name is, but they are those nasty, gray crustaceans that get into flour and other dry foods. It happened at the old house once too. Soooo... Once I realized what they were I knew I would have to pull every single bit of food out of that pantry, go through it, and probably throw away everything that was not sealed air-tight. It was late when all this happened, way too late to have an entire kitchen reorganization party. So I pulled out the big stuff on the floor and drug it out to the driveway. One of the things on the floor was a blue tote that used to hold bulk dog food. It had not been used in a couple of years so I opened the lid and saw that there were bugs all in the bottom where the crumbs had been. So that went outside. Then I saw a big container of peanut oil I use for the fryer, and it had the nasty little creatures all stuck to the top. YUCK!! So it got drug out to the drive. Once the floor was completely cleared off, I literally dumped 2-4 cups of bleachy water all over the bathroom and pantry floor (I had read that bleach water kills them). So I went ahead and went to bed, knowing that I had my work cut out for me the next day.
The following day I literally spent several hours pulling stuff out, inspecting the package, and either throwing it away or putting it in the "safe" pile. I still had not found where they were coming from though? Usually things like this come in a bag of infested flour or other dry mix. So I kept going, and towards the end I finally found the source (I think). A box of gluten-free cookie mix had been shipped with micro perforations in the bag. Each of the 4 bags were full of the nasty little bugs. So the entire pantry got stripped' sanitized, and reorganized. Not exactly what I had in mind for a kitchen cleaning day, but hey. The other thing is....we live in the country, and in the country you're gonna have bugs, whether they come pre-packaged in your food or crawl in through the front door. Which leads me to my next bug adventure.
So Kenny and Aohdan arrived back from the tree farm this afternoon. It was so good to have my boys home! Anyhoo, Aohdan goes to the bathroom and im hear him yell, "Moooooom!!! There is a bug biting me!!" I knew it was a tick. I just KNEW! And I cannot stand ticks. So sure enough, there is a tick, attached to his inner thigh, probably hitched a ride from southern Ohio. FLUSH!! Down the toilet he went. I sent Aohdan upstairs and told him to have his daddy do a complete head to toe check for ticks. So back to my kitchen cleaning project. I was getting a workout let me tell you! Next it was time to spend some time working on obedience with Solomon. The two of us did about 15-20 minutes of leash time...and in close proximity with each other. He had not seen much of me today, so I had a bit of a hard time getting him to focus at first because he just wanted to love on me. After our practice sessions, I always let him off leash to play for a bit. As I bend over to pull off his training leash I see a tick taking a stroll up my pants. "Oh NO you don't you nasty thing!!" And of course touching one is forbidden, so here I am walking around the kitchen holding my leg out and at the same time looking for something to pick it off of me. FLUSH!! Down it went to meet the other one. So I go to put Solomon in his kennel...there is ANOTHER tick waltzing toward me on the kitchen floor! SERIOUSLY?!?! Did my husband drag every tick from southern Ohio back home with him? Hahaha..
So after dealing with the flour bugs all day and then having the ticks, I felt like I had bugs crawling on me everywhere. I knew I would need a shower just to make myself feel better. So I finally finished up the pantry at about 10pm tonight, and I was WOOPED!! I sat down, looked over the cross training workout I had fully intended to do today, decided I was too wooped, and, well....here we are. Vigorous cleaning for 4-6 hours counts though right? Haha. Well, even if it wasn't actual cross training, I was definitely an active girl today. Day 13/140...DONE!!
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