A few years ago we went to Washington DC for 10 days for Christmas. While we were gone the house near flooded which caused the ants which live in the front yard colony to seek refuge in the back yard colony to escape the flooding. Instead of moving through the sub-house area, they decided to move en column through the house.
This would have been okay, but we had a 15-year old watching the house and animals (only the three cats at the time, pre-dogs and chickens!). Needless to say, SHE FREAKED. In all her 15-year old wisdom, she grabbed spices from the spice drawer: Cinnamon and Cayenne. Unfortunately for us, she also grabbed the Cinnamon Sugar and spread it ALL OVER the hard wood floors from the front door throughout the kitchen toward the back garage door (where the column was exiting the house to get to the back yard).
Then she warned us by taping across the front door with this HUGE note "ANT INVASION !!!!!" "WARNING, WARNING"...
We had gotten to SFO at mid-night, home by 1:30... open the door to see the cats perched up on the furniture not wanting to hit the ground mewing loudly. The column had NOT reduced in size... So I grabbed the pixie dust (ant poison)... spread it liberally over where the ants were coming in... as those ants started dying, I swept up the rest of them with 409.... Hideous!
That damned cinnamon sugar was a B&^CH to clean up. I was mopping the rest of the night... trying to get the stick off the floor. It was weeks before you didn't stick to the floor, really.
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INVASION
Date: 2008-05-22 03:58 pm (UTC)This would have been okay, but we had a 15-year old watching the house and animals (only the three cats at the time, pre-dogs and chickens!). Needless to say, SHE FREAKED. In all her 15-year old wisdom, she grabbed spices from the spice drawer: Cinnamon and Cayenne. Unfortunately for us, she also grabbed the Cinnamon Sugar and spread it ALL OVER the hard wood floors from the front door throughout the kitchen toward the back garage door (where the column was exiting the house to get to the back yard).
Then she warned us by taping across the front door with this HUGE note "ANT INVASION !!!!!" "WARNING, WARNING"...
We had gotten to SFO at mid-night, home by 1:30... open the door to see the cats perched up on the furniture not wanting to hit the ground mewing loudly.
The column had NOT reduced in size... So I grabbed the pixie dust (ant poison)... spread it liberally over where the ants were coming in... as those ants started dying, I swept up the rest of them with 409.... Hideous!
That damned cinnamon sugar was a B&^CH to clean up. I was mopping the rest of the night... trying to get the stick off the floor. It was weeks before you didn't stick to the floor, really.
Thank HEAVEN for insecticides! I HATE ANTS!
No, she's never watched the house for us again.
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