We’ve recently recovered from an infestation of pantry moths. You know the ones — they have iridescent wings and leave marks on your walls if you squash them. They eat and breed in your flour and other grains in your pantry and are a pain to get rid of. We got rid of ours by throwing away anything that possibly may have been infested and then making sure all of our new flour and grains were securely sealed in plastic or glass containers.

Today I was trying to get to the cable cord in the attic knee wall and moved a bag of birdseed. Out flew a pantry moth, so I quickly tossed the bag of birdseed out the window, planning to throw it in the trash bin when I was outside. I worried a little about the moth, but figured that since he flew into the knee wall he’d die before finding the flour 4 stories below him. Also I saw only one fly out of the bag. As long as it wasn’t a female carrying eggs, I figured we were safe.

Later I went outside below the attic window and looked for the bag of birdseed. I couldn’t find it so asked Dean if he threw it away. He said no. I asked where it was.

He said he put it in the pantry. I checked and it was there, right next to the flour and above the rice and below the pasta. Oh, and it was open.

Crap.

Within the past couple of weeks I’ve posted some images to Facebook and twitter that I thought were really funny. None of them got much notice either place. Either I have a really immature sense of humor or else the world of social media moves to quickly for people with senses of humor similar to mine to see most of what I post. Or else they were truly not noteworthy.

Luckily for me I have this sort of speakers corner and can say pretty much what I want to say. You may still not find it funny, but at least I can laugh again when I look at it — perhaps in triplicate.

The first image was only posted on Facebook. I’d been playing around with Google Plus and noticed that games were now available on my account. Even though I’ve been known to play games on Facebook, I was hoping that Google Plus would not have games. I clicked on one of the games on Google Plus (Angry birds) and saw that someone in my circles had recently played it. I played one round and as I quit the game a colorful scoreboard popped up on my screen. It seemed that I’d gotten a lower score than the person in my circles who’d also played Angry Birds. I thought it was hysterical so posted a screen shot of the scoreboard on facebook with this status:

Come on, isn’t that funny?

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The next thing was on Saturday when Clare was on her way back to school. I often use Google Latitude to track her comings and goings (with her blessing and only when she’s due here or due back at school. Shut up, I do give her some privacy). About 3 hours after she left us I checked her progress and saw that she was on Interstate 81 in Pennsylvania, just outside Harrisonburg. About a half hour later, Dean asked if I knew where Clare was and I told him where she’d been earlier. I checked again and found she’d moved a bit, but was no longer on the road. In fact she was in a lake near the junction of I81 and I78. I thought this was hysterical too and posted a screenshot with the following status:

You’re cracking up, right?

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Finally, and not really so funny, but more creative (IMHO), was today’s series of photos of me cleaning up after Irene. I didn’t want to clean up and put it off for a while. Dean had to remind me twice that we needed to pick up sticks. Finally I got ready to go outside and pick up things off the lawn, but first I needed to put on my knock-off wellington boots which gave me an idea and made the job more fun…

Nine, ten — begin again!

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Okay, you can go back to work now. I’m finished.

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