Fly Bread
We don’t know if it’s just us but it seems like there’s an excessive amount of houseflies this season. Even with screens over our windows we kill fifteen flies in our house everyday. Then, when we eat outside, they swarm us in a terrible way.
Andrea asked me to pick up a loaf of bread for sandwiches. On my way home I stopped by the Castle bakery and got one that had come right out of the oven. By the time I got home Andrea had already started making lunch preparations so naturally she needed the bread right away. When she pulled the bread out of it’s plastic sleeve she found a fly embedded in the bread.
Apparently the bakery is having problems with the fly population too. The fly must have gotten stuck in the dough and then got baked that way. Anyway, our family has decided not to take vitamin supplements anymore – we’ll just stick with the vitamin fortified Castle bread. Besides, it’s cheaper….
I was just wondering if you limit your fly-kill to 15 per day, or if that is how many are actually found, or if that is an estimate. You know the student of the word is concerned here about just what you’re doing with the language as well as the native animal population. Wink, wink.
Dear Student Merlin,
No need to wonder or be concerned any longer. We actually found that that estimate would limit our fly-kill to 15 per day – which bodes well for the native animal population! … blast, there goes another one! Twitch, twitch.