There are good reasons to wear boots while working on construction projects. The most obvious is preventing squashed toes. A couple of weekends ago I chose flip-flops with boot-cut Wranglers while hanging a couple of doors/trim and putting up crown mold in a recent purchase. The 1930 duplex is pier and beam with ship-lap under oak for most of the flooring. A few years back all of the walls were stripped to studs and many gaps remain at the base through the floor after replacing old gyp with sheetrock. In some spots, if the light is right, you can see the dirt beneath the subfloor in the crawl space, a perfect habitat for fiddlebacks, skunks and feral cats. I planned foaming/caulking the gaps before installing base. As I was nailing off some door trim I felt the bite above my ankle but really didn’t see the beast. I didn’t think about it until two days later when I dried myself after the shower – the wound was typical (I have been bitten before) with a blue-to-red-to-white-center-dot disk about the size of a silver dollar. After dressing the wound I wondered if the necrotic cavity (about the size of a lead pellet) would be permanent. Hooray! The news is good – the new scar is shiny and almost flat.
What does that have to do with an image of a scorpion? Well, I found Mr. Scorpion in the warehouse last Friday. I was doing something and saw movement eight inches from my hand – surprise! I knew I had been in the bayou too long when my first thought was “That’s a small crawfish.”
I dispatched the bug with a three pound cross peen shop hammer. After taking his picture…
Mars out.
Posted by Marshall Hansen 
Posted by Marshall Hansen 
