Cockroach in Bedroom

She says, "It is usual to find roaches in bathroom and kitchen, but bedroom shouldn't have any roaches!"
That's right. Kimberly found cockroach shuffling on the bedroom carpet.
First thing, you cannot let it go! They are fast. If you let that thing go behind wall between a small gap, they ain't coming back. You gotta catch it right then.

She yells, "Bring me a paper!"
I wonder why paper.
Anyway, I got a kitchen paper, thinking to myself, "should I get tissue paper?" for a moment.
Her occasional yelp raises the tension in the house.

Then I walk into the bedroom, finding her crouching on the floor.
....................
She caught a cockroach with her hand. She covered her hand over the cockroach on the floor so that it cannot escape.
Every time it walks on her hand, she yelps as if she practices to scream. Every time it only gets better.
She looks at me with puzzled eyes, "I don't need a kitchen paper, I needed a normal paper."
Of course, she needed to cover her hand. What she need is not a paper, she need exterminator or something.

If I were in her position, I would passed out. In my mind, people and cockroaches DO NOT touch each other.

Since it is not me holding a roach, I say "Hold on, let me grab my camera."
She is serious, "hey, come help me...", well, that means my photography is "veto".
I then thought about feeding it to chickens. They love eating little critters.
Centipedes, worms, grasshoppers, things that we would normally avoid, they get turned on...

I went to kitchen to retrieve a tupperware so that we can store the thing until tomorrow morning. Too bad chickens are not nocturnal.
well, she replaced her hand with tupperware. It was smooth. After that, not very smart move. She started to cover the tupperware with paper, hoping that it perfectly seals.
Truth is it does not.
Roach finds a little escape hole and crawl right out onto her hand.
"Errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!"
Perhaps it shook the whole house. it is past 10pm, but can't help it!
I can't help laughing.

Well, I take her tupperware and lid, calmly cover it in the container and close the lid.
sometimes I wonder why she exaggerate so much more for this simple matter.

compost tea for tea

It's been a while since the last blog.

Spring is here. things are getting a little bit too busy.
Tea plants started growing much more vigorously as the days are getting warmer.

Today I collected 1 gallon bucket full of chicken manure from the coop and field.
This is really interesting process.
I took an old spoon that was lying outside and a 1-gallon bucket.
Just walking around in the front lawn and driveway, walking path, carport, I collected about 3cups of chicken manure. Each time just scoop the chicken droppings. I am sure that the chickens don't care about dirtying the area. It's just us people.

I started making compost tea by adding water to the bucket, but I left it like that too long and manure started to desolve. It became like a paste.

I looked for any filter material, but I could not find at that moment so I decided to splatter in banana patch, mountain apple (which does not look like growing at all) and some experimental tea plants. we'll see what happens.