What's bugging you?

We are besieged by fleas.  I have been trying to go low toxicity and low expense, and the fleas couldn't be happier.  So we are preparing to bomb the hell out of the house, and dose the poor cats with Advantage.  When Kyle gets into the car and fleas jump off his shirt, it's time to bring out the big guns. We are open to any and all suggestions.

I will categorically state that both Kirkland and Sargent's topical treatments are as about as effective as dipping the cats in cold pee.  They hate it.  It stinks, and the fleas don't care one way or another.

On a more positive note, yesterday Kyle and I participated in another Volkeswalk. Yay us! At the end, I was dripping sweat from every possible point. There was a lot of hills on this one, and my Fitbit says we climbed the equivalent of 115 flights of stairs.  To celebrate, we went out out to Parrish restaurant downtown and I had a dozen raw oysters for lunch.  It was HEAVEN!!   Six Tillamook sweets and six Alaska golds on the half-shell.  It's wonderful how different the humble oyster tastes when it comes from different locations.  Then, on the way back, we stopped at our favorite market, Sherridan's and found the first figs of the season.

It was a lovely, lovey day
I sweat till I was moister,
then bathed and sauntered out
to feast on figs and oysters.