The war on ants

When it rains, ants invade my apartment through the kitchen and/or bathroom windows. In fact, I can predict when it's going to rain because suddenly there are ants everywhere. They've been particularly obnoxious this year, and I only have to have the window open for an hour or two for them to invade. How they do it, I don't know, but the day after I have the window open, there are hundreds of little tiny ants forming a line along the sink or bathtub. It's like they see the open window and hurl an egg through it.

So I'm on day three of trying to kill off the ants from my latest infestation. I just wipe them with a sponge into the sink, trying to avoid using stanky chemical spray for as long as possible. I noticed that a lot of them seemed to be hanging around the blender. Then I figured out that they were creating a home inside the blender where the motor is.

That's prettymuch the opposite of awesome, but it's not the first time my small appliances have been infested. In Boston many years ago, a family of cockroaches had taken up residence inside my answering machine. And while my answering machine just had to go, at least I can wash out the inside of the blender and drown the ants.

Who wants frozen margaritas?