Almeida to CTU. We are going in. I repeat - Mission Clean The Kitchen is a go.

So....we decided it was time to clean the kitchen today.

We haven't cleaned a single thing in the kitchen since sometime in early March. All was fine until the weather started to heat up this week. A few days ago, I started to notice a few (*cough* dozen *cough*) flies. I don't own any bug spray, nor would I want to spray it on my dishes. So I squirted Dr. Bronner's Eucalyptus Soap all over everything last night and that seemed to vanquish some of them.

Tonight is the first night we would both be home. Earlier in the week when I noticed the flies, I stopped going in the kitchen and informed Dave that I wasn't touching a thing w/out him. After he got home from work, it was time to prep our mission.

1. Draw up plans for fly evacuation

2. Don a hazmat suit.

3. What? we don't own a hazmat suit? okay, make a hazmat suit out of:
A.) 2 pairs of rubber gloves
B.) a garbage bag w/ a hole cut in it
C.) a hat to keep said garbage bag on my head
D.) my safety glasses that I use at the range.


And then it was time.

The first part of our mission invovled installing a complex 2 part system to quickly and accurately remove the flies from the premises. My plan involved opening the window and screen, setting up a fan and...blowing the flies out the window. The flies that did not respond to Operation Blast Of Air would be neutralised by a lethal mist of spray cleaner.

Once we were confident Operation Blast Of Air was a reasonable success, I stepped in to launch Operation Clean The Nastiness Out Of The Sink while Dave implented Operation Scrape The Crap Off Of The Dishes.

The first phase of attacks have been completed. We loaded and started the dishwasher. Then decided to take a break and watch another episode of 24 on dvd.

Here's me in full disaster mode. Note the fan which seemed to be a success. The walky talky however, was just for effect. Click on the picture for a bigger image.