For the past month we’ve had an invasion of little black ants in the kitchen.  I blame it primarily on the fact that there are certain people who share this space with me who are total slobs.  The make a mess with food and leave it there for me to clean up.  Sometimes that mess stays there for many hours before I even see it because I’m either in bed sleeping or gone to work.  So the ants have a huge picnic party at my kitchen counter due to the extreme laziness of certain other people.

I have always asked the other people to make sure they clean up their messes, and they all swear that they do clean up their own messes, so obviously someone is breaking into the house while I’m sleeping or working and making food messes in the kitchen to benefit the ants.  Thankfully, no valuables like jewelry or computers or televisions have been stolen yet; only food items.  I do think it’s very gutsy of the culprits to fix their food to eat and then eat it here and leave their dirty dishes in the sink instead of putting them in the diswasher.  Maybe I should put a big sign on all of the doors and windows asking the perpetrator(s) nicely to clean up after themselves.

I bought some ant traps about two weeks ago.  At first I didn’t think that they were helping because it looked to me as if the ants were avoiding them.  Maybe ant season has simply stopped (though I doubt it.)  But the past two days I haven’t seen any ants, so that’s a good thing.