Bug Update

Those teeny tiny ants I told you about last month have, like Elvis, left the building. Hooray! They had to be tackled, so Rod found a packet of powdered cement. He mixed it up in the bottom of a coke bottle using all his cement mixing knowledge (zilch, but there were no instructions), and applied it to the join between the tiles and the window sill in the kitchen. That's where we'd seen the ants enter. And we had no more ants, until the next day. The next day the ants had moved to using gate no.2, otherwise known as the join between two pieces of wood in the window frame. This wood is brown, so the white powdered cement was going to look ugly. We went out to see if we could find a prettier fix. Trust me, if we couldn't we were happy to go with white cement! Luckily we found some clear silicone sealant. We even found one of those guns you place the silicone cylinder in. We didn't find the nozzle you put on the front of the cylinder to direct the sealant where you want it to go, but two out of three ain't bad! So using two high tech tools (his finger and a toothpick) Rod applied the silicone and we had no more ants, until the next day. The next day the ants had moved to using gate no.3, a hole in the window frame near the right hand window. Rod used the sealant and his high tech tools to plug this hole. And we had no more ants, until the next day. Now, try as we might, we couldn't see where gate no. 4 was, but it obviously existed, because we still had ants. So we decided to try a different tack, and went and bought a can of Mortein Gold All Insect Killer. This is pretty impressive stuff, because all we did was place the can on the counter. All the ants ran away! And they must have sealed gate no. 4, because they haven't come back!