My initial happiness about not having to dispatch a warm-blooded creature (and subsequently be haunted by cutesy images of mice everywhere for months) has been replaced with revulsion, though our exterminator fellow (who we kept referring to, accidentally, as the terminator) seems to have done an exemplary job. I believe they are now "in retreat." I was not present for the procedures, but now I get the pleasure of viewing the inside of the wall through many layers of clear tape. My own living ant farm. I do, of course, have a poem about ants teeming and seething on a wall. But the ants in the poem are flying ants, and I don't want to push my luck.
01 June 2006
Pack up your tools and beat it!
When is a mouse not a mouse? When it's a consortium of frickin' carpenter ants munching through your windowsill, that's when.
My initial happiness about not having to dispatch a warm-blooded creature (and subsequently be haunted by cutesy images of mice everywhere for months) has been replaced with revulsion, though our exterminator fellow (who we kept referring to, accidentally, as the terminator) seems to have done an exemplary job. I believe they are now "in retreat." I was not present for the procedures, but now I get the pleasure of viewing the inside of the wall through many layers of clear tape. My own living ant farm. I do, of course, have a poem about ants teeming and seething on a wall. But the ants in the poem are flying ants, and I don't want to push my luck.
My initial happiness about not having to dispatch a warm-blooded creature (and subsequently be haunted by cutesy images of mice everywhere for months) has been replaced with revulsion, though our exterminator fellow (who we kept referring to, accidentally, as the terminator) seems to have done an exemplary job. I believe they are now "in retreat." I was not present for the procedures, but now I get the pleasure of viewing the inside of the wall through many layers of clear tape. My own living ant farm. I do, of course, have a poem about ants teeming and seething on a wall. But the ants in the poem are flying ants, and I don't want to push my luck.
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Maybe this will discourage you from singing Carpenters tunes while you're working.
"Loooooong agoooo...and oh so far away...."
btw word verification = ohvjez (which might could be pronounced "oy vey.")
Between this and my great affection for The Buggles, it's really no wonder, eh?
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