Misc.

Not Much

We seem to have made progress on the ant attack. Yesterday they only took over the silverware drawer.  We never could figure out where they came from or how they got there. Lots of freshly cleaned knifes, forks, and spoons now.

Catfish has decided that his big fuzzy orb be promoted to “most favorite” while Annie has succesfully shredded one of her rope with a tennis ball toy.  Annie’s idea of a great toy is one that she can chew and distroy while Catfish tends to cuddle and play with his and gets very indignant if they loose stuffing.

The neighbors are hammering on the wall next door. I suspect they are hanging Christmas decorations of some sorts. I find it rather amusing because they act anything but that which I equate with being Christian.

I wonder if the little ants have souls?  At least the royal orb of fuz and the ropey are inanimate .

Ant Attack

I should have know last night while upstairs in the tub watching two little black ants crawl along the tile that it was not a good sign.

I woke up this morning and went downstairs to get my cuppo coffee. Oh no. ANTS! Not a few ants, not a hundred ants, but at least a thousand ants. Well maybe less that 1000 but well ok . …

They were in the upper cupboards, merrily creeping along the edge of the stove hood down to the counter and from there – augh everywhere.

Someone had already sprayed the yucky smelling ant killer about but why oh why did they not dispose of the remains? Well they just might have. It took me two hours to get a stool (scary me on a stole) and slowly remove all the stuff from the cupboards.

Now I dislike the ant spray but from the looks of the carnage, those little black specks of dead ants, I decided to spray a paper towel and whip down the cupboards, the hood, the wall, the cracks along the counter edge.So far so good. No more ants seen.

I got my oatmeal made, drank some coffe and watched the news. when I went back into the kitchen there they were – dead little soldiers falling from somewhere all over the counter tops. AUGH! I cleaned it all up again and waited.  They just kept a coming.

I finally thought it over and washed down the cabinets etc and but everything back in. Later while frying onions they attacked again! falling into the skillet – nice brown fried onions – covered with ants. Cooking is a cluster F for me anymore. I set everything out lest I forget some ingredient and have system. Otherwise I might forget whats on the stove ( I use lots of timers LOL). This onion deal was a big deal.  I could always use some pepper and claim all black dots where pepper. But I through them out 🙁

I have sprayed all the outer walls, all the inlets for vents, and just bout anything you might think about. Seems they are getting in trough the common wall that has one side extended out in our neighbors back yard that is our kitchen wall. I can’t get there, they are not so nice (the neighbors and the ants), and I don’t know what else to do.

Ants are social insects living in large groups, some of them reach a population of millions. I looked it up – yep I was right there were thousands of them. So, when everyone got home they looked at me and kind of politely asked why dinner was late. They know I start when it is my turn early on in the day – I just told em to ask the ants.

Well off to read some and go nite nite – I hope I do not wake to a bunch of ant in crawling or corpse form tommorrow.

Keeping Track on how to Comment – Confusing

Blogging used to be so simple. At least for me it seemed to go ok.

Now blogger’s are doing all sorts of things to make sure the evil spam does not make it to their comment sections. I have been lucky mostly in this area – awhile ago when more peeps were checking in a few got by the spam patrol – usually on old posts. So, if one kept getting them I just closed it for comments – done deal. Spam sucks!

Now some bloggers are going to Discus, friendfeed, the list goes on and on. Trouble is I forget what password I used for what service. Trying to leave a simple two line comment turns into a hunting expedition, usually I have to do the email me my last password or reset it thing – AUGH

Then I guess I am such a poop that some blogs don’t let me leave one, or when I do it never makes it past the approval stage LOL It is rather a new thing, this new if the blog owner doesn’t agree with me or someone they know decides I am not a nice person – then ha ha we shall not be approved ha ha ha

A gal could get a complex you know.

Or, the new sneaky one – where blogger A tells blogger B they think blogger C is ________ -and blogger B blogs a new post that is so like a message to blogger C – that in some cases might be you or me.  Oh wells -wondering where the free speech and information flow went.

Seems rather clichish and highschool to me sometimes.

I am guessing that blogging what is on ones mind whether or not it is popular opinion is not what some of you consider copacetic – at least not in your cyber circle.

I admire some of my blogger friends who can keep up on all the new social networking, in fact I belong to many of them just because they do. Why not?

Well if you agree or disagree with me on something you could always just post your comment here OK?