From: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org (lucy-list-digest) To: lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Subject: lucy-list-digest V4 #176 Reply-To: lucy-list@smoe.org Sender: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-lucy-list-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk lucy-list-digest Tuesday, August 6 2002 Volume 04 : Number 176 In this issue: [lucy-list] you know it's a bad day when... Re: [lucy-list] you know it's a bad day when... Re: [lucy-list] you know it's a bad day when... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 23:26:04 -0400 From: "Benay Bubar" Subject: [lucy-list] you know it's a bad day when... ...nobody's posted on the Lucy-list ALL day to provide you with distraction from an exhausting, frustrating 12-hour day at work...and the only even slightly Lucy-related thing that's happened all day is that you've fought yet another huge scary waterbug in your kitchen at 11 at night and LOST, so the thing is still LURKING somewhere and now you have to go to bed and lie awake and chant the chorus to your little Bug Fear Night parody like a mantra... (Great, Benay...just because nobody happened to be discussing anything else on the Lucy-list on this particular day, you have to make us read about your bug travails AGAIN. This used to be a nice, respectable list, the kind of list you'd like to think was worthy of an amazing singer like Lucy...but no, you have to keep bringing up BUGS.) Yup. 'Fraid so. But if any of you, if you're even mildly squeamish, were alone in your apartment with this thing and it was too late to call anybody for moral support, bet you'd be posting too... Sigh. Benay ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 20:48:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Deb Woodell Subject: Re: [lucy-list] you know it's a bad day when... Benay posted, >and the only even > slightly Lucy-related thing that's happened all day > is that you've fought > yet another huge scary waterbug in your kitchen at > 11 at night and LOST, Well, I am still in great remorse for having fatally doused with Raid a bat that got into my house accidentally about 13 years ago, so at this point in my life, I try to capture all the critters alive and let them go. Most of them are more afraid of you than you are of them. Deb ===== You can take the rock band away from the girl and think you've tamed her. But, she'll just pick up an acoustic, give you that innocent little girl grin, quietly laugh and say? "Nevah!" Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2002 00:01:24 -0400 From: Tom Neff Subject: Re: [lucy-list] you know it's a bad day when... I remember a big flat waterbug that got into my little old Upper East Side apartment about 15 years ago, when I had my big purry calico cat Rosie. In NYC if your building is reasonably clean, you can still get the waterbugs via Korean deli grocery bags where they slide in between the plastic and the paper. This one got loose undetected, until about 2am, when Rosie noticed it and went WILD stampeding around the apartment after it in the dim city-glow through the windows. In those days your record collection was still mostly LP's, and I had milkcrates full. She chased the 2-D slitherer down and cornered it between two reggae records: it was powerless to leave, and she was powerless to pursue. It was left up to me to turn on the living room lights and administer a Rasta SQUOOSH. Ewww. These days out at Grassy Hill, waterbugs are unknown but bats are much more my speed. I gave up my aversion when I learned that a brown bat eats its own weight in insects EVERY DAY. Our music barn has three bat houses (they're kind of like inch-deep birdhouses with the slot at the bottom) on the south gable, and this year I think all three are occupied with up to a dozen tenants. If you turn on a single light on a summer night you can lay back in a lawn chair and watch them zig and flit overhead, chowing down. I had one come pretty close the other day, but it was more WOW than YIKES. Don't get me started on snakes!! ------------------------------ End of lucy-list-digest V4 #176 ******************************* This has been a posting from the Lucy Kaplansky mail list digest To unsubscribe send mail to Majordomo@smoe.org with "unsubscribe lucy-list-digest" in the body of the message