Mosquitos

Our enjoyable evening drinks on the porch met with a serious mood-spoiler yesterday: mosquitos. We braved persistent buzzing and bites for about half an hour and made a strategic retreat when we couldn't take it no longer. My legs and arms were covered in itchy bites. Maggie was smarter and wore long sleeves.
But today we found the way to enjoy our favorite evening pastime--we bought an anti-mosquito lantern. It's a regular candle-lantern with a little slit on top where a mosquito repellent strip is inserted. The repellent emits smoke when heated by the candle, and apparently mosquitos don't like the smell of it. It worked like a charm! There was not a single mosquito for over 2 hours we spent on the porch working through a bottle of red wine and talking like we haven't seen each other for months.
The wine makes blogging a bit challenging, but I'll sleep like a baby without scratching my skin off.