Thursday, July 12, 2007

Spanish Word of the Day

Chinche: small insect that infests mattresses, multiplies quickly, and bites unsuspected sleepers during the night.

As in, bedbugs.

As in, the plague of critters we discovered in the Casa and will be killing en masse by fumigation tomorrow. My job just gets better and better.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

you'll have to burn the place. you can never get rid of them. I read an article about it.

gawain

Anonymous said...

We've been fighting them for months at the Center of Hope .. tried everyone in town ... and our clients keeping getting bitten in the night ... still .... sent your blog address to Deronda ...

Love the photos of the precious children ...