AntsThey are still there again this morning. Ants all over the kitchen counter. Guess I should be happy it's not something worse like cockroaches. The only thing that really gets me about cockroaches is how fast they move. I don't think I'd mind them at all if they'd just slow down a bit. Maybe that's not true. The ants don't walk very fast and they're annoying me to no end. It's not that they've gotten into anything really, a little sugar, a few days ago they got into the cookie jar, but mostly they just hang around the counter. Them and their damned tents. They must have fifty up now. I can't knock them down because they're so cute. I guess the big one, well, biggest one, is the queen's. It's no fancier than the other tents, just a bit larger.
I make my coffee, check the sugar jar before I put some in my cup,
and look over the encampment again. There's a tiny burn mark on the
counter where they must have had a fire going last night. Mental
note, buy a nightlight. I don't want them burning down my kitchen.
It's bad enough they have trails going across the counter, down the
cabinets, around the refrigerator and out a tiny hole near the window.
I go in the frig for the milk and notice two 'scouts' on the carton.
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