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06/17/2003 Archived Entry: "Lemon Fresh Joy"

LEMON FRESH JOY

My white plate filled with water and topped with two drops of Lemon Fresh Joy is on the patio table waiting for the solid flight of mosquitoes heading this way so they can drop dead in its wake. Soon I will have to put mosquito netting around my work area and play a tape of jungle sounds all day.

Brit asked what the plate was doing outside and I just shook my head and said it belonged there. He didn't get it and wouldn't have quite understood my rationale for putting it there in the first place. It's very strange. The evidence of its worth will be in the profusion of mosquitoes that we'll have to shovel to one side in order to pass by.

Placed beside the white plate is my gallon jug of horrible-smelling, fly-catching witch's brew. Maybe it will deter the mosquitoes from gathering in the white plate. I suppose I should separate the two so the little beasty insects don't get confused about which death trap they should enter.

If I ever see a dead mosquito or house fly, I'll let you know. It will surprise me.