Still Around

We are still here but have been doing very little. Norma is having trouble shaking her cold and is hooked on watching the Olympics. We are taping everything on the DVR overnight and then picking what to watch the next day. It is time consuming but the weather has not been great so we have not had the urge to go anywhere.

We are also fighting off an invasion of tiny black ants. I know there is no stopping them and that they will eventually take over the earth but we are just trying to keep them out of this motorhome for now. They can have it later but just for now, please let me make a sandwich without having to check under the cutting board!

There are two types of ants in here. The variety in the kitchen are very tiny - think smaller than a flake of pepper and extremely fast moving - while the ones in the bedroom are larger and slower. I think these are of the Argentine species. They do not go into each others territory but have no problem invading ours,

We are incorporating two weapons. Physical squashing and chemicals in the way of sprays and drops. Norma sprayed behind the slide the other night and that caused about a thousand of the little buggers to run panic stricken up the walls where it kept her busy frantically squashing them with both thumbs.

Paul gave us some gel which is supposedly delicious to ants and which the workers take chunks of back to the nest where it is supposed to wipe out the colony, including the Queen. There is not much evidence of it working all that well. The battle continues. I am considering napalm.