We have been blessed by a series of surprise visitors: ants. The LITTLE kind, thank God, the tiny kind that look like crawling specks. They were initially congregating around Hobbes’ food bowl and in the kitchen, ok, I understand that…but now they’re crawling around the shower–clearly no food in the shower. They infested a house plant (why?!) and started ganging up in the spare bedroom. Last week I doused them with vineger…which they hated and fled screaming. But as soon as the vinegar dried up they quickly regrouped. We tried ant traps–the kind where they eat poison and then go home and spread it around like an std. They are so little they couldn’t even get up the lip of the trap and into where the yummy poison was.

We sucked it up and bought the awesomely effective RAID. However, it makes me feel sick to my stomach–even though the manufacturers were kind enough to give it a sweet smell. The RAID works…sort of. After a few days it goes away and they show up again. We also discovered that the ants are coming through the floor boards…this sucks. It means they are hanging out in the huge crawl space under our house and breaking and entering through the cracks. So, we’ve sprayed their entrances and opened up windows to ventilate the poison. Josh bought a bug bomb with the intent of sticking it under the house. However, it would mean both man and cat would have to evacuate for four hours. We might put Hobbes upstairs with food and litter box and bomb under the house while we’re away at work. Or we could just wait it out…continuing to kill them with RAID, vacuuming them up alive, and cursing every time we see a group of them. Advice?