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I miss the Daily Scavenger, so so much.

My favorite memory of my intra-neighborhood move in Carroll Gardens was carrying my wee guppy in his bowl 2 blocks to the new place. It was a sloooooow walk to avoid unnecessary water sloshing, and at one point I was crossing the an intersection where there was a police car waiting at the red light watching me and they got on their loud speaker and broadcast "slow and steady...." while I crossed the street. :)

If you want to get make sure your house stays Bed Bug free get your home a few House Centipedes. House centipedes feed on spiders, bedbugs, termites, cockroaches, silverfish, ants and other household arthropods. Many homes have them - they are very very fast and creep out of cracks in the walls and floors. If you see them, turn a blind eye for a second, they will be gone before you know it...but whatever you do, DON'T KILL THEM! They are your friends. Ever since I heard this I just smile when I see them knowing they are helping me out...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera

While on the subject of mustaches, I am not sure oyu are all familiar with the fund raising styling of "Mustaches for kids?"
These guys have a month to grow a mustache for Donorschoose.org. I have a friend fund raising here in the NYC chapter, and let me tell you, his mustache is incredibly sleazy-cool.

The fund raising ends on Saturday at the Mustache Ball here in NYC, all the 30 or so participants will have one last big mustached party before shaving off their 'staches.

Check out my friend's page here!

www.shawnmustache.com

or the general NYC mustache page here:

http://www.m4kny.org/

Say bye bye. Canal rubber is sadly no longer with us. Oh, woe is me.

They are called carpet beetles but the the amount of infestation has nothing to do with carpets. I have hardwood floors throughout and always get them through the spring and summer.

It's a varied carpet beetle. They come in in the spring and summer and find homes everywhere as they feed on pretty much anything - pet hair, human hair, natural fibers, wood, foods, etc, etc...if you ever find little wormy things (that shed their skin) in your cereals or pastas, corners of closets, etc... its from them, that is their larvae. It's important to keep the apartment super clean, vacuum and dust under and behind furniture and in closets and keep all your foods in airtight containers to try and limit the places for them to go to nest/feed off of. Also, I always invest about $200 in the beginning of the season on these pheromones traps - it absolutely minimizes their survival rate and you will be much happier come winter not to have a gazillion larvae all over in every nook and cranny eating all your stuff. Once you get the traps, you will be AMAZED at how many you collect in them. I have one in every room and they are all pretty much full.
Good luck!
http://www.pestcontrol-products.com/moths_control.htm#beetles

That chair is hip, friendly, aesthetically pleasing and would fit perfectly in a lonely little corner of my kitchen :)
Red is my very favorite.
So is wood.
Perfect combination.

I also have to replace my bathroom fan but the current one is in the wall and I can't seem to find attractive units that can be put into the wall (as opposed to the ceiling). Does anyone have any experience with that?

(its not in the Calypso website...:( )