On Saturday Otis and I made a trip to Lowe's to get some things we needed to complete a few projects around the house. As we loaded up not one, but TWO baskets worth of crap, we reached the sinking realization that we have a LOT of work to do on this house. Yeah, that just now occurred to us.

Of all the things we bought that day, our favorite purchase has turned out to be the Stinger Mosquito Killer. You could say we have a bit of a mosquito problem in our area. It turns out all of the foliage and the humidity created by the Texas Black Prairie land we're sitting on creates a mosquito haven. It's impossible to stand in our backyard for 5 minutes without being eaten alive. Which is a shame, because we have a really nice backyard, with a cute little patio that we'd love to enjoy.

Enter the Mosquito Killer.

The manual says is protects up to 1/2 acre of area from mosquitoes, it's completely silent, and - there is no messy clean up of mosquito carcasses because it VAPORIZES THEM ON CONTACT. As in Poof! Gone.

The best part? The manual doesn't lie. We set the Killer up near the center of our backyard on Tuesday evening. The instructions said to let it run continuously for a couple of days to help eliminate the majority of the mosquito population in the area. We did, and last night Otis and I were able to be in our backyard for an hour without one single mosquito bite or the need to use repellent. I didn't even see a mosquito.

Hello backyard. It's nice to meet you.