Dad's Rule
When I was a young girl and lived in that house half way up and half way down the hill, my dad made rules that I had to follow. I thought about this tonight when I took the dogs out to their pen for their bathroom break before bedtime.
On a night like tonight in the summer we would play outside in the gathering darkness and being kids, we would want to make numerous trips in and out of the kitchen. All of the bugs of the night would be attracted to the light in the kitchen, especially the miller moths. One of Dad's rules was, "Don't hold the door open. You'll let the bugs in."
This was a rule that applied to both day and night. If it was daylight, it would be flies that we might let in. If it was evening, if it was dark, it would be millers, mosquitoes, June bugs, and others that Dad would want to keep out.
I remember how we had to turn the porch light on and the kitchen light out and open the door real fast to keep the bugs outside in the night.
I wish tonight that I'd been more diligent to follow Dad's rule about keeping the bugs out. I just found a fly floating in my tea and had to dump the rest of my tea down the drain! Father knew best.
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