Archive for March 2008

Don’t let the bedbugs bite

I have just learned that there are at least twelve (12) different types of cockroaches that are considered household pests. A quick look at the Terminix pest library told me so. The type of cockroach I hate most is the flying kind, it makes my skin crawl when they do that. I remember when I [...]



Summer’s Here

Now that summer’s here we expect a noisier household, with Kuya Maui at home all day and Maia bringing her neighborhood friends over to play. Summer’s when we expect the electricity bill to rise because we get our water from a tank powered by an electric motor. More electric fans on for longer periods in [...]



A Matter of Degrees

It’s nail on the head time again, with Pol Medina Jr. (a.k.a. PMJR) on this time of year where young hopefuls march up the aisle, take a small bow to the audience, and accept the fake rolled up bond paper with the tiny ribbon, shake hands with the Principal/Dean and then down the stage again [...]



Fixing a hole

It was almost three years ago when we moved back into this house, which my father built by the sweat of his brow. What we first saw when we got here in 2005 would have made him cry, and I am still thankful that it was just Sam and his brothers who saw the terrible [...]