As I had found quite a lot of heaps of fine dust all over the house, I knew that the wood eating bugs were again chewing away on my rafters, so I asked my friend at the co-op for help, and he gave me some stuff, but also sold me an overall and thick rubber gloves that covered up to above my elbows. My plan was to paint the rafters the day of my leaving for Irma before setting off for Scotland and my job.
But I was just not able to balance myself on the rafters, as they were round, and that made clinging on quite hard, and on top of that the rainspiders had been growing quite big on all the mosquitos that the smell of me attracted, and this monsters, almost as big as my hands, were eyeing me resentfully for trespassing on their part of the house, so I hastily descended and decided to use the big fruit sprayer to do the job.I had to be very careful, the man who sold the poison to me said, as it was extremely dangerous, and if it came into contact with your skin, it should be washed off with soap and water on the double.
The sprayer proved to be just the right implement, but I had trouble with the spray coming down, and falling in my face, burning both my skin and my eyes. So I looked around for something to cover my head with, but as everything was locked away, it was not easy. In the end I resorted to my bedroom, where I had left a lot of older underwear, as I did not think anybody would want that. So I took one of those longlegged, stretchty panties that are used to nicely tame the bum and saddlebags, and put that over my head, rolling up one leg to see through. But the spray still got into my one exposed eye, so , looking around for something suitable, I noticed an old sunhat behind the door, so I put that on my head, hoping that the problem was now solved. It wasn't, as I still had to lift my head to see what I was doing,  with the result that my exposed eye got a lot of spray into it, so I decided  to put my  sunglasses on, and at last I was ready to commence, as nothing could penetrate my armour! It was now easy going, but as the house was quite dark, and with the glasses on, I could hardly see anything that went on above my head. I was busy spraying in my bedroom, when I heard a soft knock on the door, and shouted that whoever it was would just have to wait.
Because it was so dangerous, and Irma had taken Hendrix beforehand, I was immediately on the alert, and that is when I heard a soft footfall behind me! I was scared out of my wits, and I turned, and there was a quite tall and thin man, so I gave a bellow and started brandishing my sprayer in the man's direction, but this bloke gave one high pitched screech, and was out of the house in a flash! I ran out to see where he was going, or whether I could recognise him, but he was going like a bally tornado down the road, without even glancing back once! I was astonished at his behaviour, but also knew that I was very irrisponsible in leaving my safety door open, but when I later saw myself in the mirror, I knew why the man had galloped away so fast, as me dressed up in all my armour resembled something horrible from outerspace and beyond!