The first thing that came to my mind when I made the post title is this Smashing Pumpkins song, replacing vampire with anthill. Anyways.....my world has turned into a GIANT anthill! I am going nutso over here! It all started the week before we went to the lake. Well let me back up.....it started about 5 years ago when I started to working with the company I work for. Every summer we get an ant raid. This means no food in the trash, no food in your desk, no food in the refrigerator. Seriously we had to clean out our fridge, microwave, and Arrowhead cooler every summer! It sucked and I felt itchy ALWAYS! The owner saw a trick....pour baby powder around the water cooler and the ants will stay away. We did that and we have been sans ants for 2 summers! YES! This year they are back, but just in the main bathroom! Buggers (no pun intended) just wont GO AWAY! They are looking for water I know!
So the week before we left for the lake, D left a bowl of food out on our balcony for our pup (Mon). Well she didn't get to eat it, cause those little bastards made their way up two flights and attacked the hell out of it. So my friend Mr. Raid came in. I love raid, however I hate that I have to clean the area after it, because its so toxic. So I used up the rest and sprayed ALL THE WAY down the trail. The next morning (Tue) there was a trail of ants around the coffee maker...so I tried to use up whatever was leftover in that raid container and made a note to get more bug spray on my way home. (Wed) I come home from work and start to pack for the lake. I get hungry and go to look for a snack. Damn things have SWARMED our pantry!!!!!!!!! So I have to pull apart the entire pantry....trash everything that they got into, including pups food (what they were really after) and scour it. Then put everything away and pack for our trip. Not something that was really very fun! Especially when the fumes of the "organic" bug spray that you bought from Target smells like Bengay and you have a gianormous headache! The smell lasts all night and through the next morning.
We were gone Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun and we returned Mon around 10PM. We get home dump our stuff and go to get a drink. Open the refrigerator and they are in our fridge and FREEZER! I look defeated. I say to D "Your turn!" and go and unpack the suitcases. The good thing about the organic spray is that its non-toxic....bad thing IT DOESN'T LAST! Cause come Sunday morning those bastards were back in my freezer! I pulled out the fridge, pulled everything out of the cabinets and discovered that they are coming from above the cabinets, down inside them and making their little ant trail around the edge of the freezer door and inside. Once inside the freezer they die of course...freeze to death. I had enough! I called our leasing office to ask them what we can do. They sent an exterminator out to "spray" our apartment. This was last Wednesday. I bought ant traps and sprayed my organic spray again (have gone through the entire can in under 2 weeks!) No inkling of ants for 3 days. I am a happy camper. I wake on Sunday, go into the bathroom and boom....invasion from our sink overflow! >/ Looks like they didn't do a thorough job. Back out they will come! Save me from the ant invasion before I got nuts!!
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