Worm hunters

It’s been a balmy day in town – everywhere we went, people’s delighted comment would be, “isn’t the weather wonderful!”. It was moderately overcast, but warm, with a mild and warm breeze, really felt like the beginning of Spring. Since the weather was so nice, and Nick was feeling relaxed after finishing all his radio talks this morning, we went out to lunch, to Donny’s. We did all our school stuff as usual, finishing just before 12, so left straight away. It really was a treat being outside! The ship is still in James’ Bay, so we had the added benefit of seeing it, imagining ourselves on it in 2 ½ months. The boys found a centipede in the lounge, so got themselves dressed up in capes, masks, long sleeve tops, socks etc, to be able to capture the creature without getting stung in the process, otherwise they thought they might die. It was a classic, actually, and I would have taken a photo except that there was no boy actually sticking out anywhere to be viewed. They had their capes over the heads, so they could only see through the material, and then masks over that to keep the capes in place. I don’t think the little centipede would have known what was coming at it. As it happened, they lost it, and when they spotted it again later Nick was home from his guitar lesson, so instructed them to spray it with Target. I think they not only killed the centipede with the enthusiastic spraying, but every living thing within a 10m radius of the lounge.