Cockroach Season
It’s definetly spring in Grand Junction. I always love this time of year, the tulips are starting to poke out of the ground and green buds are starting to form on the globe willows. The neighbors forsythia bush will be blooming amazingly yellow blooms next week. Our trips to the park will become more frequent and on the weekends we’ll all walk down to main street and window shop, maybe eat lunch in a little cafe.
There are only two bad things about spring. First, spring means that the sweltering heat of summer will soon be upon us. Here in Grand Junction, it could be really hot by the beginning of May. Second, it means cockroaches. I HATE cockroaches. There’s really no way totally get rid of them. We have pest control come out and spray every year, but that means that we’re just finding dead cockroaches not live ones. At one point our house was so infested that they had come up from the basement and were found crawling up the couch and our bedroom door. Not to mention all over the bathroom. There were a few nights that I didn’t sleep because I was sure they were going to get in the bed.
I’m so paranoid of it getting like that again, that as soon as I find a live one marching around, I call pest control. I hate to have poison sprayed in the house, but knowing Honor, he’d eat one and I’d have to dig it out of his mouth. I might just die if I had to do that. Jim insists that our kids will not be afraid of bugs. (But, I think deep down, Jim’s creeped out by cockroaches too.) He wants to bring praying mantis’ in our house so the kids can pet them. I’m fine with the kids not being afraid of bugs, as long as he doesn’t expect me to pet the bugs too.
Edit: Because I haven’t posted a picture in awhile. Here’s Honor sitting in the doll house.
Category: daily 6 comments »
March 2nd, 2005 at 11:41 am
Oh my God, that is one cute picture. The little footy jammies!!!! There is nothing cuter than a fat toddler in footy jammies.
March 2nd, 2005 at 2:04 pm
Just reading you post makes my blood pressure rise! My classroom is infested as well. The thought of opening a drawer and being face to face with one literally makes me scream! My kids found one in my desk drawer… one I open daily and stick my hand in with out looking!! The thought of how many times I came within inches of it that day sends chills down my spine and makes me super paranoid! I regularly check bags I bring home to ensure that I am not importing them into my home! If the kids leave food out at school I can hardly touch it thinking of the cockroaches that feasted on it the night before! My custodian never misses an opportunity to tell me how they scatter when he turns on the light at night! I can completely relate! AHHHH!
March 2nd, 2005 at 3:10 pm
We have them too Cockroaches in St. George, UT . They are so gross. You need to start spraying NOW!!! You need to spray before they can hatch a new batch. Take my word for it and have your house sprayed every month, even though they say it will last for 3 months. Don’t believe them EVERY MONTH SPRAY!!! Take it from me I don’t have them anymore. Cause I start to spray in March and every month until October..
March 2nd, 2005 at 7:10 pm
We don’t have cockroaches in our house. I wonder why. Maybe the don’t live this far north?
I think I would just die if we had anything other than those nasty white spiders that parade around our house when we go too long without vacuuming our basement.
And I must say that I think that picture of Honor is just perfect. If it were me, I would have it printed and framed. How sweet is that picture?
March 2nd, 2005 at 10:22 pm
Fortunately the cockroaches aren’t that bad in this apartment building. In a previous building there would be dead roaches in the basement every time I went down to do my laundry. Living in the city though is tough because you just *know* they are out there even if you aren’t seeing them. The worst are the rats though, we see them in the alleys all the time and they drive the dogs absolutely wild.
July 9th, 2005 at 11:50 am
I’ve only been in St. George since April 26, and I’ve had the outside sprayed three times and the inside twice. I found this site because I’m ready to move, because of the outside dead cockroaches on all my concrete areas every day. Thank God I haven’t seen any INSIDE!!
Is there any place in St George that DOESN’T have cockroaches? Does Cedar City have them?
Thank you, Stacy, for the advice to spray every month. The spiders and other insects from the greenbelt across the street are bad enough, but just a nuisance compared to the cockroach threat! Seriously, I want to move if I’ll always have to greet the day looking at huge dead, or still wiggling on their backs, cockroaches every morning. This is an expensive three year old subdivision–I didn’t expect to have to put up with THIS. I thought the red dirt , wind, and heat would be the worst of it!