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When you're in Kansas City, you should try to get to Harry Epstein's (http://store.harryepstein.com/). It's a hardware/surplus store that is a magical wonderland of tiny hammers and Czech two-way telephones and castiron cookware and a million things to get your project-y juices flowing.

One more time -- it's not regular spray paint, it's fabric spray paint. It's designed to paint fabric -- apholstery, clothing, etc. It's ASTM non-toxic and they use it in children's art classes.

Here's a link to an example paint:

http://www.fabricspraypaint.com/page/Paint_Products.html

We get these all the time, too, but they just hang out on the screens. They don't really come into the house. It might be worth your while to figure out how to open and close the windows without taking down the screens. Or maybe using a finer mesh, like cheesecloth.

The K-State extension site recommends:

Recommendations:
Psyllid control indoors:
A vacuum cleaner with hose attachment may be used to remove invading psyllids. A
space spray may be applied using a household aerosol labeled for flying insects. Use
a product containing synergized pyrethrins or one of the pyrethroids (various names,
but they usually end with -thrin). Note, not all aerosols are intended for flying-insect
control. Read and follow label directions closely.

Preventing entry:
Several steps can be taken during the fall just before frost to reduce entry. Turning off
outdoor night-lights and reducing the amount of light shining through night windows
helps. Consider using fine mesh (18) screens on windows that are kept open. Ordinary
screens are 12 mesh to the inch. Caulk or plug up cracks and crevices. Keep windows
and doors closed when psyllids are active. For temporary reduction, spray exterior
surfaces such as window screens, shutters and sides of buildings where psyllids are
resting. Look for residual insect sprays labeled to use on outdoor surfaces. Examples
of ingredients with residual action include cyfluthrin, bifenthrin, permethrin, Baygon and
tralomethrin.

It's a display in a museum, not a bookshelf in an actual home.

There's a pyramid house in Clear Lake, Iowa, too.

http://fromthedeskofthemayor.blogspot.com/2008/11/amazing-pyramid-home.html

If that church is where I think it is, welcome to the 'Dotte!

Seriously, when I have to buy a non-rechargeable battery (usually for a camera when I am stuck in the field), I use it until I get the battery warning. Then it gets passed along to the remote control, the battery backup for my alarm clock, etc. You can get a lot of use out of batteries that are "dead" for one purpose.