By Loretta Humble/Around the Town
The only news I have is about the Family Peace Project Waffle Breakfast. It was held last Saturday. I was there, eating waffles and trying to help out. The waffles were great, and it was the most successful one yet.
I should have been promoting it before hand, but I was all wrapped up in my own rescue attempts here, and neglected it. I did try to make up by buying a whole lot of tickets, but I don’t think that is quite the same. I’ve been a terrible board member to that fine organization that offers safe haven and resources to victims of family violence. I’m going to do better now that I’m not trying to rescue quite so many folks on my own.
Maybe I’ll tell you about some of my do-good attempts soon. Or maybe I’ll share my travel poem. Granddaughter Pepper had to create a one-copy travel magazine for a class assignment, and required a poem from me. I don’t think she was particularly impressed with my offering, but maybe you will be. Maybe I’ll share that next week.
Then there’s this other thing … I want to ask your advice. I don’t know why I bother, because you never give me any, but I’m desperate. Little bitty brown bugs show up dead in my bathroom around my bathtub. I never see any live ones. Okay, that’s not quite true. I’ve seen two or three in their death throes.
I have been searching the Internet. I found lots of questions about small brown bugs, and not many answers. I thought for a minute I’d found them—springtails! Springtails, I understand, can crawl up your drain pipes and spread out all over your tub or sink. But, for one thing, they are seen alive, and another thing, they are soft, roach-like critters. My bugs are hard shelled, and they are only around the top edge of my tub. Nowhere else. And they are dead.
So what are these little buggers? Where do they come from? And how do they get there dead? If you have any idea what these little suckers are, please write or call me at 903-681-2880 or [email protected].