The Epidemic Continues

My sister got back from Washington last Friday. On my way home from Shaunnas’ house I got this great idea to ask Heather go scorpion hunting (taking a black light in the yard and killing them). When I got home Heather was already scorpion hunting. I decided to walk around with her. My sister is very daring and she actually likes doing it. She gets all into it and uses my moms hemostats grabs them and then cuts them into about 8 pieces. That night we found an astounding 32-33 of them. YUCK! She has gone out every night since then and luckily the numbers have decreased. In the last week though there have been over a hundred in my parent’s back yard! AGH!

Now we find them (well I should say she) in specific places. The back yard borders with 4 neighbors. There are two houses along the back wall and then one house on each side. Against the back wall the house on the right there is hardly ever any on that one. The house that is on the left there are usually several. Which makes me think that they have a scorpion problem too (since they tend to be territorial). I told my sister she should go over there to ask if they do and then if they say yes, to ask if she can hunt in their back yard that night. But, I guess she didn’t like that idea and they would probably be offended. DON’T THEY KNOW THAT THESE CREATURES ARE HORRIBLE?????

Last night I didn’t go out with her and she found the mother-load. She put it in a mason jar (sick, that better end up in the trash) and sprayed them it was a mother and 11-tiny babies upon her back.

I love my sister and that she protects me from these things. I am sad to think that my hunter is leaving in a few weeks and won’t be back for a year. What am I going to do? My other sister and I are too squeamish to do it. Heck, I freaked out tonight outside when a mouth landed on my shirt. I think Heather should become a scorpion wrangler, she’s great at it.