Autumn Sweater

Heroes and Villians

And the winner of 'What should my costume be?" is Nathania.  Wanna see?

In other news, the move into the non-finished apartment began yesterday.  My furniture is now there.  However, an unexpected issue with the walls in the bedroom (Semigloss used to touch up the satin finish walls!  Yikes!) has set things back a bit.  Also, the toilet is still in the center of the living room.  Kitchen countertops aren't expected for at least 2 weeks. Sigh.

It also seems that repeated climbs to the 5th floor walk-up are changing the shape of my ass.  Who knew.

Please Help!

My mom is dealing with a severe moth infestation, and she just emailed me asking for advice.  I am not the expert, having dealt with my moth problem by ...um... moving to another borough.  So, I'm posting her email here.  Does anyone have any advice for my mom?

Dearest,

Spring has sprung...a thing I can tell cuz there are now moths flying around my bedroom. This after totally gutting the room since last moth season, not to mention removing and packing in mothballs/lavender the clothes I just recently brought back in...and freezing anything with any evidence of moth presence.

I would like your advice:

1) Obviously this would be a good time to bring the stuff out of the freezer, trick the little devils into hatching, and then throw it all back in the freezer to deep six them. However, can't this result in their eating said stuff prior to their demise? Clearly timing is critical; exactly how long should I leave all this stuff out of the freezer?

2) In all my research I've never found this, but do you know of ANYTHING that can be done by an exterminator to seriously get rid of moths? When I've got a bit more spending money than I have right now I would be happy to sleep elsewhere for a week just so they could give the house the smoke bomb treatment or some such.

Thanks for any advice you can provide.  I haven't yet found answers to these specific questions on the internet.

XOXOXOXO
The Mothed Mom

Strange Effects

Last week I was in LA for work.  Work work work.  I'm not sure if this bizarre cloud effect stems from the LA smog or some other atmospheric phenomenon...

but it sure made for interesting photos.

I'm home now, and seem to have come down with the plague.  I stayed home from work today, and have been sleeping and (gasp) knitting!  Between the plane time and today, I actually finished something!

My sister's scarf!  The double helix effect didn't stay as consistent as I had hoped, but it still looks pretty neat, I think.