Ok, I wanted to blog about how after months of failure, I FINALLY have gotten Happy to drink her formula out of a sippy cup. The picture on the right is a snapshot of our new morning routine of "milky" in her Diego sippy. But unfortunately, I'm distracted by the fact that almost EVERY STINKING DAY I'm having to fight the ants that are invading almost every aspect of our apartment.In ANT WARS: Tanzania Edition, the African Ant is kicking bug butt against Team Beery. I mean, SERIOUSLY! Almost everyday, I have to pick ants out of (1) our bottled water (2) the lid of almost every container of liquid, dry, or semi-parishable food (3) our clean dishes and flatware and drinking cups... the list could go on and on! I was horrified to find ants floating in the bottom of Happy's sippy cup after I was so thrilled that she had drank almost all of her formula from said sippy. And then, of course, I was immediately riddled with guilt that I had subjected her to those little insects of destruction. UGH! I hate ants.
Every morning I am picking them out of our toothbrushes. Every night I have to flip on the light before I take a swig out of my water bottle (made the mistake of not checking last week and washed down a herd of ants and had bites all along my scalp as the ants transferred off the water bottle, onto my face, and climbed into my hairline before I could slap them all dead on my cheeks!) I find them crawling on my couch. I see them setting up camp in my sink drain. I am surrounded by trees where they love to HANG and have major cracks, holes, and broken seals on my metal doors where they like to march on in-- one by one-- hoorah! hoorah! I have anti-bug sprayed the doors, door frames, drains, windows with glass, windows without glass, the floors, the shelves, just everything in my house. Its ridiculous. I will say that the spray has brought the level of these killer varmin down. But eradicate them? No. And I'm getting kinda' angry! I HATE ANTS!
I think the worst part about them is that they hang out in my clothes (we handwash and dry my clothes outside on the clothesline. While the clothes are wet, they like to crawl into my pants pockets and hang out until I put the said pants on for the day and BAM! They come out and bite me. Ouch.) I thoroughly inspect Happy's clothes and try to kill them all dead on the spot. But every now and then she starts slapping herself and turns to me and screams. I immediately strip her down and its always those bloody ants! ARGH! I HATE ANTS.
Ok, enough about the darn ants. Two more months until America. Lets cross our fingers Happy comes with me and doesn't get put back into an orphanage. Because I want to write about more trivial things like attacking ants and not blogs about how my heart got ripped out of my chest when I had to say goodbye to my baby girl. Prayers.
Shae
4 comments:
Okay, I have two solutions that SHOULD be Tanzania friendly (since I can't see you getting Raid bait at the local Wal Mart).
#1) Wipe down your counter tops, cupboards and any other places where you've spotted ants with a 50-50 mixture of white vinegar and water. Repeat throughout the day to maintain the efficacy. Ants HATE vinegar (and it removes their little "scent" highways, so win-win)
#2) This might be a tad more difficult to get. Basically you get borax and mix it with sugar water. Sprinkle a couple drops onto like foil and put it near where they are. They should (in theory) start swarming it and in a day or two it should wipe out the nest. And borax isn't terribly harmful (it's in like soap and detergent) for the toddler, either.
Hope that helps!
I am TOTALLY with you, Shae! Ants are icky and terrible. Yeah, the odd ant here and there isn't bad, but the swarms, they are awful. I hope one of those two options in the comment above work for you so that you can get some peace from all the ants who seem to like your house to much.
Praying for you and Happy and visa things.
Ew, that stinks. At the Shoprite in town they sell Raid ant bait. I remember walking in fear at night because those giant ants would crawl up my pants and bite me.
Windex (about 3/4 bottle) with 2 Tbl salt and 1 Tbl Dawn dish soap. Spray where ever you see them. Don't know if you can get it but works great! Also sidewalk caulk. Hope it works!
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