It's hot.
I like it, but it brings out ants. Like, a LOT of ants. For instance-
On garbage day, I grabbed our kitchen garbage and went to put it in the big trash receptacle outside. Much to my chagrin, it was ringed with
ants. I'm talking a quarter inch high line of ants furiously circling the lid. So gross. Well, I had to throw the trash in there so I could then roll the bins out to the curb. Not thinking, I lifted the lid, hoisted the garbage sack and let the lid slam shut. As it shut, the force caused a
wall of ants to fly directly on to my torso! Ew! I furiously brushed them off, but then they were crawling all over my hands. I brushed my hands off, but when I looked down there was a swarm of ants scurrying around near my feet! I did the only sensible thing and started hopping around like the ground was on fire.
THE GARBAGE CAN
Then I saw a lizard dart out behind the trash! (I might have screamed a little, but no one was around to confirm this). Thankfully it took off while I was doing "Hot Feet," and I bolted for the house.
So then I had a problem: I still had to take the recycling bag from our house to the receptacle outside (I hoped it didn't have ants too), and I had to get both cans out to the curb! Ugh!
I grabbed the recycling and cautiously went back outside. The ants on the ground seemed to have dissipated a little, but they were still
everywhere! The recycling bin still had ants on it, but not as many as on the trash, and thankfully, no ants came flying my way when the lid flopped down.
I thought that if I could get the garbage out to the curb, the ants would die in the sun. Better yet, they would all fall off during the big jolt from being dumped in the garbage truck. I went to the back of the can to wheel it out, but when I gripped the handles, ants began
covering my hands! I hadn't noticed that the ants were all over the handles too! I brushed them off and tried to think of a plan.
First, I used a handle in the middle of the can to pull the garbage out from the wall a little. No ants came off so I pulled a little more. I glanced down and once again saw ants darting all over the place on the ground! Ew! I went to the back of the garbage can and started kicking it towards the driveway, which was a long way off. I just had to do a little dance in between kicks so the ants on the ground wouldn't crawl up my bare legs. (because, of course, I was wearing a skirt and flip flops)
THE PATH TO THE DRIVEWAY
Well, the kicking wasn't really that effective and I wasn't sure how to get the can through the front path and down the slope of the driveway. I decided to start with the recycling bin. There weren't as many ants on the handle so I was able to wheel around the path and down to the curb with only a couple ant passengers. While I was there, I saw that our neighbor's garbage cans were lined with
dead ants. Aha! They must have killed them before wheeling them out! Great idea! I ran back inside, ignoring the ants partying on the ground, and grabbed our can of ant spray!
I went out confidently this time and sprayed the rim of the can with
gusto! I saw the thick line of ants going down the can, across the ground and along the wall so I sprayed them with all my might! I even sprayed the ground all along the path! MWA HA HA HA HA! Take THAT!
Then I went back inside, donned some disposable gloves and successfully wheeled the can to the curb! Hooray! Thank goodness!
MY HERO!
(I'm really hoping the lizard didn't find its way inside during this episode)
I keep feeling ants crawling on me once in a while only to realize it's a stray hair. I hope.
And I'm really sorry because I realize that now
you feel like you have ants crawling on you too!
PS The blog title is in reference to
this movie. You should see it sometime. We watched in high school biology.
