Up to this point in my life my two worse things were moving and doing my taxes. Now taxes have fallen to third place and in second place is having your house fumigated or “tented”. Last week my land lord had the house that I rent fumigated. The house was built in 1936 and had already been pretty well attacked by termites but my land lord decided to do it anyway. My wife and I had to move out all the items that were either consumables or would go into one’s mouth, like toothpaste. We were given special bags by the fumigation company but there were not nearly enough. Finding someplace to store the food that needed refrigeration was very hard but we managed. We also had to book a spot at the pet hospital for our dogs and cats. Finally, we ended up booking a hotel room for the night and after days for moving all of our stuff and the outside plants we were ready to go. The day arrived and after about an hour of work the fumigation company had to cancel because the house next to ours, also being fumigated, had bees! It is a state law that there can be no fumigation if there are bees because it makes them go crazy! The only insect it actually kills are termites and mice. So we had to re-schedule everything and two days later the fumigation was done. My wife was very sad because of all the beautiful plants that were killed on the side of the house. After one week there is still a lingering smell of the gas. If I ever can have my own house it will be made up entirely of stone!