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Laree I hope your bum feels better soon! We get bark scorpions up here but they aren't as toxic as the straw scorpions that I dealt with in AZ. I keep a scorpion flashlight next to the bed since the idea of moving back into scorpion country made me nervous at first. Now I just use it to check on eggs in the bator.
When I was about 7, we lived in an old house in East Tennessee that was infested with scorpions. Mama never let me go barefoot and she'd tuck the blankets under the mattress after I went to sleep at night.
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We have always had our occasional scorpions but they are few and far between. My friend though, when he was an infant his mom put the legs of his crib in pots of water to keep the scorpions away from him. She said it was crazy, it was like they were coming from everywhere. ugh, I would have moved a heck of a lot sooner then they did lol.
I was having a dream one night about a year ago that a snake bit me on the arm. Well for some reason I woke up and looked at my arm that there was something black and snake-ish looking (in the dark) heading under my pillow. I jumped up and nearly beat myself to death on my way to the light. Turned it on and yanked my pillow up to see a centipede crawling down the back of my bed. He ended up getting behind my dresser and since my husband was out of town he got away. I slept on the couch for the rest of the week lol. I guess it really didn't bite me or whatever cause I didn't have any marks on my arm. I guess an odd coincidence that I had that dream right then??
I thought that scorpions didn't really exist in downtown Phoenix due to the fact that it was overtop an area that had a lot of pesticide use in the early 50's and 60's.
At least, that's what my godmother told me when I was visiting - probably so I'd sleep.
Arizona, the land of multiple interesting ways to die:
I can't wait to go back.
You don't believe everything you read on the Internet do ya?
You notice the calendar says, "if you set your eggs early in the morning then THAT is the start of Day 1". No matter what time you set your eggs, that is the start of day 1. Just like an infant, they don't turn 1 until they get to the end of their first year.
In my book (and I think Greenwich mean time will agree with me), 24 hours still equals a day. Of course, I'm not taking into account the periodic time adjustment to adjust fraction seconds.
Anyway, one day after 8:00 am is still going to be 8:00 am tomorrow. So for me (and I assume most people), set day is zero, 24 hours later is day 1. Just the way I do it. Actually I think my incubator runs a tiny bit hot (I haven't calibrated it), my hatches have all started on day 20.
Deb
What, no gila monsters?
