After the very nice Fourth of July from last year, I was looking forward to taking in another fireworks show yesterday. Unfortunately, Mother Nature had other plans
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My parents' old house was built on previously open land- ants were a yearly occurrence coming up from nests built down alongside the foundations. On a hot day, you could easily get back home to see hundreds of the buggers crawling up from under the skirting board or scaling the French windows. Flying ants among them! There was no way to get rid of them permanently, but frequent application of powder kept them down to a low ebb. You just had to spray them as much as possible and hoover up the bodies when they'd done their thing.
Had to kill a few more ants today, including one that was hauling the body of one of its buddies across the kitchen floor, which I got with one of my boots. Thankfully it's just been one or two of them at a time since last night, but it still looks like I've got my work cut out for me.
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I'm still a little squicked out by ants today.
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