I wake up to find
ants have invaded the house
the battle begins
I may have escaped the zombie invasion, but not the ants. Woke up this morning early to find one biting my shoulder. A minute later there was another. Looked up to find dozens, coming down through the cracks in the window screen, to swarm across the head of my bed.
Got up and went to the bathroom to find—ants coming up around the sink to swarm over a piece of wet cat food I’d left there last night. Ajax and bleach cleaned up the ants in the bathroom; wood glue to seal the cracks in the window frame took care of the invasion in the bedroom.
Then I started the morning chores. Opened the door to the kitties’ room to let them out for their morning romp. But they weren’t sitting nose to door, ready to come charging out of the room. Because there were ants, trailing from the back porch door, across the doorway to the kitties’ room, to the carpet around the cat food mat. Aargh! Sponge, Ajax, bleach, carpet sweeper, eventually I got all those ants cleared away.
The invasion has been repelled for the time being, but I am going to need to get some more Sevin5, the insecticide I like to use because it’s not harmful to pets or other animals, and re-apply it all around the house, and especially by the back door.
In other news, I’m still sick, but getting a bit better. I went to work yesterday, but the four hours exhausted me. I’m still congested and my ear is still plugged up, although, presumably, the antibiotics have gotten rid of the infection. I’ve been using Sudafed… putting Vicks on my nose… taking hot baths with the shower curtain closed to hold in the steam… using saline nasal spray… nothing will completely clear the congestion from my sinuses, or let my ear drain. I wish there were a steam room somewhere reasonably close by. If I were in San Francisco, I’d go to the Kabuki and sit in the steam room for an hour and try to steam out my head.
At least I’ve got the day off today, so I can rest. I should be doing a run this morning… hmm. Maybe a very slow two miles. I might have to put off my five miler, depending on how I feel by Sunday. I’ve got two extra weeks built into my schedule, but I’d hate to use up one of them so early in the training. I’ve been having all sorts of problems keeping up with training already! Sore back, cold, now sinus problems. But I will persevere.
Here is a photo of Spot washing his toes.
