Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Ants Come Marching Two By Two
This video pretty much sums up what we have been experiencing in our apartment over the last few weeks. Ants! Ants in the carpet, ants in our pants. It has been raining off and on here, and the ants will come in under one of the windowsills next to our fireplace after the flood water rises. Stinkin' ants.
One night they were so bad that we started vacuuming them up. As we were on our fourth or fifth vacuuming of the night, the vacuum stopped working! I plugged the vacuum into another outlet to see if by chance it was just the outlet that went dead on us, but it didn't work there either. The ants spent the next 24 hours taking over our living room. They were on top of the carpet, under the carpet, and I even found one dead ant on the inside of Eli's diaper plastered to his leg. When looking inside the vacuum (we have a bagless vacuum) you could see the ants burrowing tunnels and making themselves at home. I thought I was going to freak out.
Later that afternoon I took a shower and went to blow dry my hair using one of the same outlets only to discover that both outlets we had tried using previously were on the same circuit and were out. I reset the circuit and had an ant extermination spree. Take that for stealing my living space small creatures of nastiness!
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Yah, we have ants, too. I think they are having their last fling before winter.
They're evil. We had a huge problem with them in Delaware. We had them so much, Sam started calling the ants his "friends".
We had a major ant problem when we first moved into our house. We sprayed and sprayed the bug killer but they would come back within days. Then Nathan's dad put us onto some awesome ant killer. It is called Amdro Ant Block and we just get it at Lowe's. The ants take the little granules back to their outside home and share it with their friends. It dries their bodies up from the inside. We haven't seen nary an ant since - and with four little boys you KNOW we have a crumb problem on the kitchen floor. The only problem is that you have to leave it where the ants can take it and you don't want Eli to eat it. That part can be a little tricky but it only took a couple of days for it to work around here. Good luck!
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