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Termites – Again!

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MorningSun

It was a beautiful dawn over Monterey Bay and that’s the last nice thing I have to say today. Two years ago we bagged the house, had it filled with a noxious, killing gas to murder the termites, we moved into the Venetian Hotel because we were terrified of the gas and…now we’ve got termites [...]

Evicted By Termites

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Termite Smile

Our annual inspections of the house charted a continuing rise in the population of termites. Each year, we put off tenting the house for fear of the toil involved in preparing to be gassed by a scary fumigant as well as the inconvenience of uprooting ourselves and hauling with us many of our belongings. Then, [...]