Roach motels when the situation becomes unmanageable.

From what you’re describing, the roaches are probably laying eggs and living inside rotted wood or old furniture.

I’m not a fan of fumigation since it is expensive, rarely works anywhere near 100%, and uses toxic chemicals, so it makes your house dirty and then the roaches are back in a couple weeks.

Buy a large pack of these glue traps with packaged bait, bait the traps as you need them, and put one trap in the area of each room you see the most roaches, somewhere dark, under furniture or out of sight.

You don’t need more than one trap per room, roaches are plenty mobile. Check them daily in the beginning, replace them when they are one layer full of roaches trapped in the adhesive.

You will have a whole bunch of live roaches you can feed to your chameleon and you will notice the roach infestation going down rather drastically. They catch young and old roaches with equal effect.

Very simple traps, and I’ve always found them to work very well.

I recommend buying the highest rated variety of baited glue traps with the highest amount of people who have bought it before.

Woo, sounds like a party! I’ll pick some up and add in garlic next time.

Whole cloves or sliced?

Yea, that sounds great

Sounds pretty dynamite

Pickled red onion, although your post is a real coincidence because I’m pickling some cabbage for the first time and while I assume red onion is going to stay king, cabbage isn’t gonna be no slouch.

I just started pickling stuff regularly though, and pickled beets do sound dang good, so I’ll make those next time I see a stray beet begging for culinary embellishment.

I did these in China.

4 first, poor had nothing, moved to teach English. It was fine, I paid for things with cash, I had a debit card to use the ATMs.

And up until that point I still didn’t have any phone, so I climbed the hills behind the apartment I was renting and just walked around town learning stuff, trying for, living life.

Then I got a dumphone, which changed little except I could hang out with close friends from the school but usually we coordinated when we work together in the school anyway, so there was very little change with a dumb phone.

Then I bought a laptop and I could study Rosetta Stone and watch TV/movies.

eventually I got a smartphone and then I could start dating in the modern world. I dated in China before that through organic meetups, but I didn’t realize how far into the digital age dating head lapped until I got a smartphone and used all the apps.

It’s very feasible and I’ll say a lot less stressful to not have a phone, but it’s not as anxious-fun, and I do like looking stuff up all the time and having gigabytes of music in my pocket.

which reminds me before I had a laptop or smartphone, I bought a mini iPod in China and used one of the school computers to load it up with music.

Shoot that was a revolution for me, I loved the little clip on the back and how late it was.

How bad would it be for your social life?

I’d say that without the tech you won’t make new connections as easily on a surface level, but whenever an unteched person does get into a conversation, their side of the conversation tends to be a bit more well thought out and significant.

You’ll also put more work into the real life relationship since you don’t have a hundred virtual relationships vying for your attention on your phone.

So it would probably help your social life, by my metrics.

https://archive.ph/xTgzh

even cooler than the mural suggests:

“Translating to “Hammer of the Witches” in Latin, the Malleus Maleficarum described the secret lives of witches and cataloged their habits for purposes of easy identification, including the curiously specific description of stealing male genitalia and keeping them alive in bird’s nests.”

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/massa-marittima-mural