I woke up to a lovely sight this morning. Thousands of ants in two trails from my balcony to my kitchen. I'm talking trails that were 3 or 4 ants wide, not just a small trail. One trail was focusing on the fruit near the trash can and the other trail was focused on the washing machine. Now, I know, you are probably thinking "hey, you should clean your house". Yes, I should. But it isn't even that messy. Yesterday I never got around to sweeping the kitchen like I usually do several times a day. And I didn't get around to vacuuming the living room, but it's not like it was that dirty. And yesterday was the first day in a week that we didn't do the dishes or wipe down the counters before bed. And this is the FIRST time this has EVER happened while living here. We often get a handful of ants in the bathroom, looking for water, but never in the kitchen! Ugh, so gross. Now my house reeks of bug spray (which it's lucky we even had - I hate to use it and I don't even remember when I bought it) which I wouldn't usually use, but how else do you kill a ton of ants before your son gets eaten by them??
We didn't even go to bed till midnight last night and Blaise woke up at 6 this morning - those ants are really fast!
And, if you are wondering, we spent the day doing far more important things than cleaning. For instance, I grumped around the house till noon and finally got dressed when Blaise went down for a nap and then we went to the river and came home that exhausted and dirty and fairly miserable. And after the kids went to bed I spent 3 hours packing and planning stuff. See, far too busy to clean. :)
3 comments:
Ashley- I totally believe that your house is not that dirty, because we have faced vicious vicious ants. The first summer in our last house, they were out of control - and really not even in our kitchen. We would find them in our clean clothes piles, in our washer, EVERYWHERE - even once attacking us in our bed while we slept. It was horrible. We used tons of bugspray and perimeter control spray, but the only thing that ever worked iswas some strong yard granuales at the beginning and throughout the season. Hopefully the bugs aren't as bad there as they are here though - anyway, sorry for the long reply.
We're had ants in our house from time to time this year. I vaccuum them up and spray where they are coming in (always a line at the front door for us) and they stay away for a while. If I can catch them starting to investigate the door again and spray from time to time it holds them off, but once they start coming in it quickly becomes a nightmare. We put some spikes in the yard and haven't had them in the house since, but I imagine they'll be back sooner or later.
I had ants here I think it was last summer and it was crazy , they were so many of them , they got into my pantry , and a bag full of goldfish had to go ..because of those lame ants, it's a nightmare not matter how much your clean , once they are there takes forever for them to leave , ask your manager to spray the place outside , that's what I did and they were gone in a week , good luck!
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