Ants! Grrr....
Now today's goal is to get the house properly clean, but to do so with stuff that doesn't attract ants. (I washed the floor with lemon-scented Mr. Clean yesterday, and I think the ants loved it more than just the dirty floor; they've been swarming under the door ever since.) We also have to put some weather-stripping on the bottom of our door.
Yuck.
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Grrr.... Arrrr!
You should throw a picnic in the backyard. That should attract the ants outside.
I don't know why, but when I try to add a comment here, I have to go to permanent link to the post, not just off your main page. And it's only like this on your blog, not anyone else's. Any clue?
Maybe your pop-up blocker is blocking the comments page?
Thanks, Tabitha! Chris is now sprinkling cayenne pepper. (We laid down some sticky tape in front of the door, since all of them are coming in under the door, but they've been still hanging out in the doorway.) Chris reports that the ants ran away pretty fast, when he sprinkled the pepper.
Next step: to the hardware store for weather stripping. (This will also mean that the wind will no longer come in under the door, bringing dust with it. Hooray!)
I love the cayenne pepper idea, I'll have to remember that one. My sister has a very funny story of the day that ants got into the house at the ashram she went to. And because they are all Tibetan Buddhists they had to individually carry the ants out by hand, trying not to harm or kill any of them in the process!
Wow. I'm glad that I have no specific moral reservations about killing insects.
(Ahem. Considering the fact that my first method was spraying the floor with Fantastik -- in the hopes that the smell would deter them. And then I discovered that the Fantastik killed them. And so I sprayed more.)
Hey Matt, was that a Mutant Enemy Productions reference or just a sweet coincidence?
Must be a sweet coincidence. I've never heard of Mutant Enemy Productions. The "Grrr....Arrr!" thing is copyright "Conversations of Ariann & Matt"
If you're referring to the picnic thing, that's solely the product of my demented mind. Copyright God.
Warning: I'm a big dork.
Mutant Enemy Productions is Joss Whedon's production company. Every episode of Buffy and Angel ends with this little paper cut out monster moving across the screen going "Grrr...Arrr"
I'm impressed that you and Ariann do that too though.
No, you're totally right. I remembered shortly after commenting, and I tried to put that up, but for some reason I'm having trouble commenting on Maryanne's blog. Just hers, no one elses. I haven't watched Buffy for a long time...
Ariann and I derived it independently. I don't remember how it started, but one of us says, "Grrr..." and the other says "Arrr!" I suspect it was because I said something that caused her to say "Grrr...", and "Arrr!" was my natural response. She's fun. You're fun, too.
Grrr.
One night when we lived in Thailand, Andrew went to bed with something sticky on his face and woke up completely covered in big black ants. Not fun. I'm happy you figured out how to take care of the ants. The cayenne pepper idea is awesome.
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