Wednesday, April 14, 2021

Ants!

 

Hi Natty!  What's going on with you today?  I hope you are feeling great and having a wonderful time, and everyone else around you is fine.  I thought I would have an easy day today.  I didn't have much labor scheduled for myself, just to clean the 2 fans in my bedroom.  After that I went to the kitchen to make iced tea, and I found my kitchen invaded by ants!  2 types of swarms, a small red biting type and a black skinny annoying type.  They had taken over my counter top, so I had to lay a large dose of bug spray on it.  I cover my counter top with a thick plastic wrap, and the ants had inundated the entire structure.  I couldn't just leave the pesticide oozing out, cat paws are very sensitive to this poison.  So I needed a solution, a different counter top.  I washed and bleached some used floor tiles and arranged them to make a new counter top.  I secured the lot with some roofing nails so cats can't tip them over onto the ground and shatter them, thus my new counter top is made out 8 panels of tiles which I can pull out and wash in the sink.  Therefore I can leave the bug poison under the tiles.