So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Hand Held Bug Zapper

By Frank Williams

If you aren't already familiar with the hand held bug killer, you are really going to like it and if you have had one before, I'm sure you'll welcome it back like an old pal! The handheld insect zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really well.

Any insect that comes into contact with the handheld insect killer is fried. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are disintegrated with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger insect, like house flies and wasps die, but don't explode like the smaller ones.

Think about it, how many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise enjoyable evening in the garden? Or how many times have you not been able to get a decent night's sleep, because you know there's at least one mosquito in the bedroom. It has happened to me dozens and dozens of times, I know! It is very gratifying to get one's own back with the handheld insect killer.

I don't like killing anything unnecessarily - I'm married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I'm sorry, they have to go. And the electronic insect zapper dispatches them without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they'll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one sweep of the handheld insect killer and the mosie's gone and you can hear whether you got her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females - honest, I wasn't being sexist).

There are two basic types of electric bug killer. There's the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both work on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable type, although I suppose you could use rechargeable batteries too. (I bet they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place). Anyway, I have had a electric bug killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.

These days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that my handheld insect zapper gets a good work-out almost every night. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the rural areas, where we live, so it comes in very handy. I also use my handheld insect zapper to 'sweep' the bedroom for bugs before we go to bed at night, just like a secret agent.

The electric bug zapper just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I had four or five years ago, often failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.

However, the latest electric insect zapper will easily last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My newest one even has a strong light called a headlamp built into it. I'm not sure what it's supposed to be for, but if you think that revenge is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic insect zapper.

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