Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Shouldn't We Be Winning By Now?

This
is our kitchen pantry.  It has been emptied, soaped, bleached, caulked, and painted--with an occasional shot of Raid here & there.  The brown thing is a pantry moth trap (which does work, by the way).  And yet....I just vacuumed up two more moths a few minutes ago.  We're nervous about moving things back into the pantry until we're sure that the moths & their little worm babies are gone, but we were sort of hoping that would have been when their food supply dried up--or when their nests were vacuumed up or painted over.  Maybe they can survive a few days without food or air?

In the meantime, meals here at Chateau Sutton-Goar are a bit of a scavenger hunt.  The potatoes are in the living room, the flour is in the dining room, and the olives are over by the piano.  Isn't that where everyone keeps their olives?????

2 comments:

Mandy said...

I hope that you do get to put everything back in your pantry once again. An infestation is a really difficult thing to get on top of.
Good luck.

bittenbyknittin said...

I keep my flour and grain products in the freezer and/or refrigerator. Ditto nuts and anything that is not in an air tight container. One taste of mealy worms was one too many for me!

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