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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Losing the battle against the hormigas

A quick side note before continuing on to number 2:

I just wanted to let you know that my battle against the hormigas (ants) has hit an all time low. I think being gone for the weekend allowed them more time to plan and plot and reproduce.

We came home from work today to discover that they had managed to get into our pinata full of candy. This means that they managed to crawl up a dresser, then a tupperware dish, jump onto a towel, climb up the towel, climb along a curtain rod and finally down to the pinata. They are persistent, arn´t they?

So here comes the all time low part: my roommate and I dumped out all the candy on the floor with a good 100 or so ants that had magaged to make it in. We then went through every piece of candy, throwing out the ant infested pieces, putting the good pieces in tupperware and killing as many ants as possible along the way. I can´t say I´m proud of the number of ants I have killed today, but I will say that I will sleep a lot easier tonight knowing that I did.

My Lesson of the Day: Persistente is how you say persistent in Spanish

2 comments:

Roots of American Music said...

wow ...bullfighting, ant killing ... there's kind of a dark side to this blogger ...

Mom said...

Aaah! perhaps the ants started their feast on the ear of a bull and were just looking for dessert...tupperware is always a good last resort.