Weird

Okay, you know it's summer in the midwest when.....

In July one day can be 98 with 95% humidity and the next day it's barely 70 and overcast

Your vegetable garden grows by inches in a day

It rains over 7 inches in two weeks

Bugs emerge from EVERYWHERE, seriously, EVERYWHERE!!!

Everyone's hair becomes frizzy

People randomly offer strangers "pop"

Okay, well, what really happened today is as follows: We went to Naperville, the neighboring town, to stroll along their parklike river/downtown area. It was nice and warm, and I thought there was a lunch hour concert happening. We couldn't find the concert (missed it by about a mile), but did enjoy walking along the river path and dipping our feet into the fountains. Well, as the girls were enjoying one such splash, I was avoiding bugs. It's not even cicada season but the bugs just are everywhere. One landed on my head, kid you not! So I'm doing the little squeamish dance while the girls are walking around the edge of this circular fountain. Do you think you know where this is going? Yep, I was not the most attentive parent as I avoided the bugs, but NOPE, nobody fell in.....

Well, nobody but the DAMN beetle that managed to DROP INTO MY BRA. Of course, I didn't know that at the time. I thought I had a twisted wire or some thing stuck down there. Fiddle, fiddle, rearrange, fiddle, watch the girls splash total strangers, fiddle. Still ten minutes later, it was bugging me - no pun intended. I reached in and JESUS THERE WAS A BEETLE IN MY BRA! EEEEEWWWW! I missed it, but just felt it on the first attempt, but you bet your you-know-what that I got it the second time. I was sooooo relieved that it didn't take a chunk of my flesh with it when it dropped to the ground. Are you as disgusted as I was?

Given my past experiences with bugs crawling on me and doing such harm as invading my intestines or giving me tick fever, I really have a thing against bugs crawling on me. Funny, as I type this, there's a spider crawling up the wall.

Where can I live that has no bugs? Does such a place exist? Can I still have a garden? Maybe I should invest in some bee keeper clothes.

Well, the kids are fine, thanks for wondering. I thought that this episode in MY life merited some attention. NO, there are no pictures attached of the evil beetle. Sorry. I hope he got stepped on.