IN MEMORIAM: Indoor Parties

It’s May, the lusty month of May (thank my interest in Broadway musicals for that line), and it’s time to move parties from indoors to outdoors beginning on Memorial Day.

It used to be that Memorial Day meant you could start wearing white.  But now it means, it’s time to party, picnic and enjoy nature.  And I’m first on the block.  Twinkle lights on all my railings and fences, Japanese lanterns hanging from my trees, flowers and lush green plants anywhere and everywhere, tiki torches lining my pathways, umbrella tables with citronella candles disguised with a “people inviting scent” in pretty little buckets.  And then.  The zapper.  Not at my house.

No. No. No.  Please, I beg you.  I’ve been at so many outdoor events, relaxed, laid back, drinking a summer-tini when all of a sudden…zap or more like ziiiiiiipich.  An unsuspecting mosquito, moth or poor dragon fly flies into the light only to be electrocuted.  Some rally at the sound with a resounding, “yesssss!”  Others, like me, are jolted into reality that a) nothing lives forever; b) what a terrible way to go; and, c) this is nature at its worst.

Thus, in closing, I ask you go to your favorite home store, get a little froggy citronella candle or a lady bug…they work just as well, they don’t smell like they used to and the bugs avoid them without the need of a funeral!

Have fun outdoors, and have a great Memorial Day Party!
The Party Girl