ACCOUNTANT BY DAY

We closed on the house without incident, and my dad brought over the bed that they’re giving us. It took a little while to set up, since it’s a waterbed, and we had to fill it up by running a hose out the window to the spigot downstairs on the side of the house. When I opened up the window I found some tiny ants (not carpenter ants) and their eggs, frantically running around. I smashed some of them. Morale was low. As I continued to kill them with the window-propping stick, they implemented a strategically unsound “Pick up egg, run several inches, drop egg, run around in circles, repeat” sort of maneuver. On the whole I’d say they were stupid even for insects. I think, I hope, they will be easy to kill this weekend when I get around to it. This guy we know, who works for Terminex, says that you can buy “bait” stuff to feed them, and they’ll just take it back to the nest and give the goodies to their queen, who will eat it and die a horrible death, ensuring the destruction of the entire colony.

So far I love home ownership!