As I said in an earlier post, in past, the ants have done a little bit of investigating, they have come in, walked about.  We gave them an offering up in the reception room of brown sugar water and they stayed there until they had their fill and found other pastures.

THIS YEAR WE ARE STILL BATTLING.

Above, from the earlier post, “Ants Go Marching!”

Izzee has been our watcher, and we’d find
her staring at the carpet, and sometimes coming to me to tell me that there
were ants marching.  It was as if she knew we wanted them gone.  They would not leave, though we did the sugar/water offerings that had worked in the past.  Finally they began to roam the walls.  When they found the kitchen we freaked out!  I decided that, against all my Buddhist leanings to do no harm, we had to resort to poisons.   There were gazillions on the walls, in the walls, and everywhere.

I was in the kitchen doing battle, going back and forth about the decision
to order poisons.  Karma happened.  I took a serious fall in the kitchen…
Still, it really came down to knowing that if we did not nip this finally
in the bud they would take over our whole studio, and this means in
our shellac, etc.  When they march they don’t just hang with foodstuffs,
but show up EVERYWHERE.  I have NEVER seen this many ants, ever!

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