Attacking the Mosquitoes!

Glenn was tired of me complaining about all the mosquito bites I was getting in our home both day and night, even when I was sleeping.     There were gaps in the walls  above the windows where you could fit your fist and the mosquitoes where flying through in swarms.   We spent hours filling up the gaps with newspaper and and then covering holes in the flyscreens with grey electrical tape.

Glenn, hammering flywire over the front screen door.     

Glenn went off on his bike early one morning and found a shop nearby where they repaired flyscreens and a man called Melvin, who turned out to be Vanessa's cousin, ( they're all related) followed him back home the same morning before 9 o'clock to see what we needed and gave a price of $30 for 6 new screens. 

He brought a young boy with him and they took out all the delapidated flyscreens, ripping out all the grey tape from the gaps. I stood by with my mouth ajaw feeling devestated after all the work we'd done with the tape, remembering our experience with our window in Cofradia. ( That took a weekend to get fixed and we were left with a huge hole in our bedroom wall for 2 days!) 

Melvin promised he'd be back with the flyscreens in an hour.   He returned very close to the time and his boy, who worked while Melvin talked, had them replaced in a very short time.   We found another screen that needed repairing which the boy then carried back to the shop on his bike.  The next day he and another boy arrived to  fix our back flywire door  and replace the other flyscreen for $8.   That included putting aluminium round the frame of the door to cover up the gaps and a new latch .   We've now replaced the grey tape around the other gaps in the windows and the door now closes perfectly keeping out most of the mosquitoes( except for those that sneak through when we open the door.)  

 The two young men measuring up the aluminium on our kitchen floor. 

They were very happy with  several drinks and some watermelon and a tip of $1 extra a day.  Their income would be $25 a day normally for their work.

I'm now sleeping more easily at night with far less mosquito bites.  I'm only attacked by mosquitoes in the classroom now and I keep those away with my bottle of Australian Rid!