Shanspirations

My mom forwarded my account of our mite / bug infestation to a friend who’s husband is a Pest Control Operator. Here is part of the the email with which she replied (For privacy, I changed others’ names besides our own to initials):

Hi “D”, I read Shannon’s story to M and [...]

…Continued from Our Bug Nightmare Part 3
The thing I have found most helpful for getting a good night’s sleep (something I became desperate for during all of this) is to make a paste of diatomaceous earth and water and spread it all over my skin before going to bed.
Diatomaceous earth is ground up diatom fossils; [...]

…Continuing more of our account and including some of Jacob’s Journal (JJ) excerpts)…
We went to our doctor and he ruled out scabies, but when we asked, said it wouldn’t hurt to try treatment for it because maybe the treatment would kill whatever else it was we had. He suggested bombing our place with pesticides (which [...]

I’ll continue with an account and Jacob’s journal (JJ) excerpts, as well as one of mine, but first, here are a couple of accounts by others that we later found. The first describes what our experience has been like and the second has seemed a possible explanation (but we really don’t know what the [...]

It might take a few posts to finish, but I’ll start sharing the story of what has happened to us. Jacob started keeping a journal right around our anniversary (a coincidence that he started it then) and has written accounts of many of our experiences. I’ll include excerpts of his journal entries as I go [...]

About 5 weeks ago my husband and I spent a lovely day in Saratoga for our 4 year anniversary. My husband had taken the day off and arranged for our sister-in-law to babysit our little girl.
We had lots of fun. In the course of walking past the Victorian bed-and-breakfasts and attractive shops of [...]

I read this post on hospitality and really liked it. My husband and I have a heart for hospitality, but that entertaining part (as described in the post) is what I feel I am not good at! So this post made feel great because it indicated the entertaining isn’t what is necessary for [...]