The return of the ants
Apr. 19th, 2025 07:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
noadvertising Son number four got picked up at the trainstation yesterday evening. As usual, he was hungry and warmed his Italian noodles in the microwave. Seconds later I heard his cry of outrage- the lemons I had cut off my lemon trees were covered with ants, lots of them. We threw them into a bowl with hot water, to drown the beasts. Darn, I never thought ants to be active durinng night. First thing this morning was buying new ant traps- and warning hubby to never ever throw these away before he was allowed to. Then I carefully cleaned the area between sink and cupboard, even sprayed it with instant death for insects. The beasts must be immune, each time I had a look I found new ones. Hopefully the new ant traps will work!
I cooked the lemon rice son loves, added roasted chicken mostly for hubby. Son would eat rice without it, the whole pot if possible. Then son and I drove to Aldi, while hubby mowed the lawn so that the boys would be able to run along. Alas, we will have Easter dinner at number two tomorrow. DiL2 decided to take Cassian to the Orthodox resurrection service- at eleven in the evening. None of the two will be up before noon next day, number two fears. So it's him alone to do the roasting of the meat and take care of Flavius- with a plaster hand at that. Of course we will do the side dishes at our house, and the baklava is already safely hidden in the fridge in the basement to hinder ants from having fun with the cake.
Today will be early bedtime for me, all that ruckus we had this morning made me leave the bed at six thirty in the morning. The neighbours at the backside of the house are getting a new roof for the garage, those in front of the house a new balcony. The one to the left started planing the boards for the garden wall. The vice-mayors husband started digging up the vegetable bed at six!!!. Idiot neighbour was appalled- no matter what he did, the others were louder. Must have been a downer for him. Now I wonder how he is planning his revenge!
I cooked the lemon rice son loves, added roasted chicken mostly for hubby. Son would eat rice without it, the whole pot if possible. Then son and I drove to Aldi, while hubby mowed the lawn so that the boys would be able to run along. Alas, we will have Easter dinner at number two tomorrow. DiL2 decided to take Cassian to the Orthodox resurrection service- at eleven in the evening. None of the two will be up before noon next day, number two fears. So it's him alone to do the roasting of the meat and take care of Flavius- with a plaster hand at that. Of course we will do the side dishes at our house, and the baklava is already safely hidden in the fridge in the basement to hinder ants from having fun with the cake.
Today will be early bedtime for me, all that ruckus we had this morning made me leave the bed at six thirty in the morning. The neighbours at the backside of the house are getting a new roof for the garage, those in front of the house a new balcony. The one to the left started planing the boards for the garden wall. The vice-mayors husband started digging up the vegetable bed at six!!!. Idiot neighbour was appalled- no matter what he did, the others were louder. Must have been a downer for him. Now I wonder how he is planning his revenge!
