Everywhere. One of the kids kicked at some dirt today and we discovered that it was actually a nest filled with thousands of ants. I've never seen so many ants in my life at one time. And all day I've had phantom ants crawling all over my body. Fire ants to be exact. Only one kid managed to get bitten, even though it was nearly impossible to keep them away. All we could find was wasp and hornet spray so we used that at first. And Melissa just happened to be at Wal-Mart so we called and she got some fire ant killer powder. And it smells terrible. Really terrible. Like, we kept thinking the kids were poopy but it was the ant stuff. I think the ants died just because of the smell.
Tomorrow's Friday, praise the Lord. Next week is girl's camp. Yay!
I'm leaving now, going to Matthew's graduation party. I hope they have good food cause I'm really hungry.
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well i just wanted to be the first one to post on your blog......hmmmm.....don't really have any comments. Just didn't want to be left out of the action. Hooray for Girls Camp!!!!!!!
I'm sorry you had to smell poopy all day at the cost of getting rid of fire ants. win some lose some.
hooray for Friday
I'm so sorry that you itch all over. I hate that feeling. I got one ant bite on my foot and it drives me crazy! I can't imagine how tons of them would feel. Makes me itch just thinking about it! So glad that I get to see you on Wednesday! I love you!
i hate ants. all of them. espcially the big black gross ones you find in your house. every where. they give me the hebeejeebies (sp).
Yeah for Girl's Camp!!!
You can kill fire ants with aspartame or orange juice and repel them with baby powder - Learn how to kill pests without killing yourself or the earth......
There are about 50 to 60 million insect species on earth - we have named only about 1 million and there are only about 1 thousand pest species - already over 50% of these thousand pests are already resistant to our volatile, dangerous, synthetic pesticide POISONS. We accidentally lose about 25,000 to 100,000 species of insects, plants and animals every year due to "man's footprint". But, after poisoning the entire world and contaminating every living thing for over 60 years with these dangerous and ineffective pesticide POISONS we have not even controlled much less eliminated even one pest species and every year we use/misuse more and more pesticide POISONS to try to "keep up"! Even with all of this expensive and unnecessary pollution - we lose more and more crops and lives to these thousand pests every year.
We are losing the war against these thousand pests mainly because we insist on using only synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers There has been a severe "knowledge drought" - a worldwide decline in agricultural R&D, especially in production research and safe, more effective pest control since the advent of synthetic pesticide POISONS and fertilizers. Today we are like lemmings running to the sea insisting that is the "right way". The greatest challenge facing humanity this century is the necessity for us to double our global food production with less land, less water, less nutrients, less science, frequent droughts, more and more contamination and ever-increasing pest damage.
National Poison Prevention Week, March 18-24,2007 was created to highlight the dangers of poisoning and how to prevent it. One study shows that about 70,000 children in the USA were involved in common household pesticide-related (acute) poisonings or exposures in 2004. At least two peer-reviewed studies have described associations between autism rates and pesticides (D'Amelio et al 2005; Roberts EM et al 2007 in EHP). It is estimated that 300,000 farm workers suffer acute pesticide poisoning each year just in the United States - No one is checking chronic contamination.
In order to try to help "stem the tide", I have just finished re-writing my IPM encyclopedia entitled: THE BEST CONTROL II, that contains over 2,800 safe and far more effective alternatives to pesticide POISONS. This latest copyrighted work is about 1,800 pages in length and is now being updated at my new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com .
This new website at http://www.thebestcontrol2.com has been basically updated; all we have left to update is Chapter 39 and to renumber the pages. All of these copyrighted items are free for you to read and/or download. There is simply no need to POISON yourself or your family or to have any pest problems.
Stephen L. Tvedten
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When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
And now you know how to take care of ants and bugs the green way. I'd kill em any way you can, orange juice? or otherwise(my preferance). We're always gonna have pests, not because they become immuned to insecticide, but because of Adam and Eve gittin kick out of the garden. I had some of those ants on me when I was pickin up shingles behind the bushes.
I had a splendid weekend. Miss ya and love ya tons.
miss you.
will see you soon.
yaya for gc!
you can call me mrytle.
Oh my. I can't wait to see what you two have cooked up for Saturday Night Live :) I'm sure it will be hilarious...and even if no one else laughs I guarantee you Erin, Mandy and I will all be laughing which will hopefully encourage others to laugh, too.
BTW...any of you who read this or remember next week, please pray for me. I have no idea how my emotions will be when I try to talk. When I talk about M&D, they (my emotions) are rather unpredictable and I just really want God to use me to reach these girls. They are truly precious in His sight and I want to help them realize that. Thanks and God bless!
Ants! how i love them they are my hundreds of roomates that i daily share my apt with down here in JA! but i don't have any poopy smelling anti ant stuff to keep them away... I hope you have a great day and fun at matthews graduation party you can give him a big hug and kiss for me:) I love you.
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