I spent the morning in Beit Shean, since I had to return the car. While I was there, I also went gift-shopping for our anniversary, which Ema kindly reminded us about a few days ago. I wouldn't say that I found a great gift for Husbinator, but I definitely found some stuff that's better than the set of 4 cutting mats I bought for him when I picked up the car. You know, flexible cutting mats. The ones I bought look like slightly higher quality than the usual ones, so I don't entirely resent that they cost 15 NIS for the set of four. You see why I felt I had to find him a slightly better present.
In even more exciting news, Shoshi and Nosie-Boy are visiting the kibbutz while John is overseas! We hung out over lunch, and it was just like the good old days. Shoshi said she visited the daycare center earlier today, and BSM totally recognized Nosie-Boy and was very excited to see him. She also told me that the babies play in a sandbox (which I knew) wearing nothing but their diapers (which sounds eminently practical to me), after which they get a bath (with soap). This suddenly shed light on what should have been two puzzling mysteries, but which I treated as two convenient gifts. Firstly, even though BSM plays in a sandbox multiple times a week, he never comes home covered in sand. Secondly, an embarrassingly long time elapsed between Baths I gave Baby last week, but he never got gross. Mysteries solved!
After lunch, Shoshi and I (and Husbinaor and Nosie-Boy) hung out at our apartment while I waged the first battle of the ANT WARS. I bought caulk in Beit Shean (thank you, Husbinator for the word, caulk; I could only think of the word DAP, which is what Abba generally calls caulk) and caulked up the crack the ants were using as a portal. Then I took paper towels and went on an ant-smashing frenzy. Die, ants! And stay out!
I'm sure I'll need the caulk in a few days when the ants find a new portal. What is the appropriate method of caulk-storage to keep it from drying out? (The stuff says it can be stored for up to a year after opening, but I don't see why it wouldn't all just solidify like a bottle of school glue that someone left open.)
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