Ants

Ok, I’m at war with the ants here. They are the tiny ones that show up in the gazillions. I don’t know where they come from or how they get in. Well actually I do know how they get in, the house isn’t exactly sealed well but I don’t see them coming in the conventional way like under the doors or windows but I think they bore holes through my concrete walls. These ants are ridiculous; they come in droves and will overtake anything. I have eventually come to appreciate them, to a point, because once I saw a piece of popcorn (yes, well a type of popcorn because they grow a species of corn here that has a kernel like quality that they make popcorn out of) that dropped on the floor and that night I saw ants had almost completely taken it away in a couple hours. It was amazing, so I at least I know that if any type of food or dead insect or animal is somewhere that I do not know or can reach that it will not rot or mildew because the ants will take care of it. But I hope that I will keep my house in order enough so that I will not need the ants’ help. The biggest problem I have with them is that they love to get into my food and unless I have everything in Tupperware I cannot keep them out. I even had a fully packaged block of cheese that I kept on the floor (yes, the floor because a concrete floor is surprisingly cool and I was going to cook the cheese that night) and the ants ate a hole in the plastic to get to a small section of the cheese. Again, these ants are ridiculous. When I remove all of the ants from a piece of food, like loaf of bread, I think ‘ha, I won this battle.’ Unfortunately, I have a feeling I will lose the war and just have to accept a co-habitual living situation. As long as they stay in designated areas then I can deal.