Fleas

When we got home from our road trip, we noticed that the house was full of fleas. We first noticed when Julia said, "I have all these mosquito bites on my ankles" but then also saw them everywhere. We first tried just the carpet duster, but that was not sufficient so Saturday, we cleaned, bagged up clothes and linens, put up plastic tarps and then bombed the hell out of the house while we went to a hotel. We got back this morning, dried everything that we had bagged up (in case there were fleas in them) and vacuumed and wiped down the whole house. I hope we got them all, but my guess is we'll have to do it again at some point.

It's strange that in 16 years, we've never had a flea problem even thought Zeke has always gone in and out. I think the drop-on medication isn't working for him anymore since he was covered in them too.

It was all very gross.