Fishy, is it something from Ortho? I know there are sprays for the ground, and I may just have to do that. Burn the straw in the barn dog house, wash the beds in the dog pen again, I have a spray for inside the dog pen, but it's expensive and won't do my whole yard. Would do my carpet in the house, but thinking I would do a bomb rather than aerosol in the house.
OK, I have a story for you all!
Tonight, I mowed my yard. I always do the ditch between horse pasture and road first. Neighbors closest to me live across from far end of the horse pasture. They have 3 grandkids, two of whom were outside playing tonight while visiting grandparent's house. Let me start by saying my neighbors are what I would consider white trash. Mother of the babies just had her third child this summer, and I think she MAY be 20! All 3 kids have different daddies, as does their mom and her sister, my neighbor's 2 daughters! OK, on with the story.
So, I'm heading toward their house, mowing in the ditch. The two little boys, I think they are 2.5 and 4, saw me coming and started to head across the road (we have VERY little traffic on our road) with their ride-on toys. Each was carrying his ride on toy, across the ditch, and then they "parked" them on the pasture side of the ditch. They looked at me coming (I was moving slow on purpose) and realized the toys were still in the way, so they moved them ... under the ELECTRIC fence, which is only one line, about 3.5' high! I thought to myself, I sure hoped someone had taught them about the electric fence! About that time, while they were looking my way, the little one reached up with both hands and grabbed the fence! I was still pretty far away, but shut off the mower and ran toward him trying to calm him down and asking him to come to me. He turned right away and headed toward me, still holding his hands. I grabbed him up and held him and told him it was ok. The older one, Mario, was right with him. I squatted down, and we had a talk, and then I told them we needed to see what caused Drake's hurt hands. So, we went back across the shallow ditch and we sat down. I explained about the electric, and that it "hurt" if touched, that's how the horses stayed away from it. Drake agreed that he will NEVER touch it again, and Mario saw how he cried, and he agreed to never touch it either.
When I carried Drake into Grandma's house, they had no idea anything had happened or was wrong. THAT's how they are. They let these little boys play outside on their own, near a sewage ditch that always has water in it, maybe up to 18" deep at times, just figure if they tell them not to go in it, they won't. That ditch also harbors the snappers when they lay eggs, as well as snakes, of which I almost mowed one over couple of weeks ago heading across the road at the EXACT place where Drake grabbed the fence! It was possibly a poisonous snake, I'm not sure, maybe just water snake, but it was not garden nor black snake, which I know are pretty harmless. It was almost 3' long.
Well, I just hope the fact that they got curious, or maybe just forgetful, will teach the mom and grandma that they are BOYS, little boys, and they need to be watched at all times.
I will add that it was oh sooooo nice to have that little guy so happy to be held and snuggled and taken care of. He was so innocent and my heart was torn for him.
